Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dual measurements however, is growing very fast, Underwood continues, cling grocery labeling as one broad example. Moreover, he notes that most schools are teaching with systems...
...from ordinary thrillers by legitimately developing its plot and characters. For the most part, the characters in this film come across as real, and if the acting is somewhat nondescript, the tempo at least keeps things from getting dull. In fact, because relationships and conflicts crop up so intensely fast, it is easy initially to mistake Impulse for a drama rather than a psychological thriller...
...fastest-growing company in aviation history, to tiny Regent Air, which plies its passengers on flights from Los Angeles to Newark with caviar, lobster and French champagne. Not all of them have been profitable. Old and new carriers, including Braniff and Air Florida, went bankrupt by expanding routes too fast. Said Daryl Wyckoff, a professor of transportation at Harvard Business School: "The airlines were always ending up like my beagle, 15 blocks from home and panting...
...home town is so dull," goes the old gag, "that for excitement everybody goes down to McDonald's to watch the numbers on the sign change." McDonald's in recent years has been selling hamburgers so fast (140 per sec.) that many golden-arched signs state simply: BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SOLD. But that does not mean that McDonald's has lost count. Indeed, the Illinois-based company (1983 sales: $3.1 billion) disclosed last week that it will sell its 50 billionth hamburger some time late this month or in early November. The tally goes back...
...Kirk Gibson. By dimension and disposition, Gibson continues to be the football player he was at Michigan State, a 6-ft. 3-in., 215-lb. flanker. "A very natural game for me," he said, "football came easy." It only appears that baseball should be simple for a muscleman fast and strong enough to take his homers inside the park or over the roof. After exaggerating his promise by batting .328 in the strike-shortened season of 1981, he slumped last year...