Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...throwing it as fast as my fastball," Sutton said. "I was really pumped." He had reason to be. After two years of arm problems, he finally seemed healthy...relatively...
...been part of Harvard hockey for 21 years," the younger Cleary said. "I can't think back on anything special, it is all going by a little fast right now. Everything was great, that's why it hurts...
...York Stock Exchange, abuzz for the past few years with big consolidations in oil, steel and transportation, the reaction was swift and positive. Investors sensed that a new rush was developing toward stocks of communications companies, portending more big mergers and fast price rises. ABC stock shot up $31, to nearly $106, and issues of some other companies in the field also climbed sharply. At week's end CBS had gained 20 1/4, to 108 3/ 4, and RCA, parent of NBC, had risen 4 7/8, to 42 7/8. Newspaper publishers Gannett and Knight-Ridder were...
Even when the Soviets have been able to buy, steal or develop new technology, much of it has never been put to wide use. Says Gertrude Schroeder, a University of Virginia expert on the Soviet economy: "Soviet workers think that robots work too fast, and sabotage them. Supervisors have to build fences around the robots." Managers fear that testing new technologies will disrupt production and thereby prevent their factories from fulfilling assigned quotas. Says Herbert Levine, an expert on the Soviet economy at PlanEcon, a Washington consulting group: "All technological change means risk and a measurably high percentage of failure...
...that Gorbachev is a 9-to-9, six-day-a-week worker, family man, restrained vodka imbiber, classical music fancier, hiker, reader. The problem of course is that those kinds of data tell almost nothing about Gorbachev as leader of a surly, hostile superpower. How did he rise so fast? Why was he chosen? What makes him special? There is no sure way to measure a man's soul...