Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think [about] how fast the mind can move us, the way the story is a span of light across space," says Billy Bathgate, the 15-year-old gangster apprentice who is the title character of E.L. Doctorow's newest work. And appropriately for a novel that mellifluously combines historical fact and invention, Billy Bathgate is itself a transporting medium...
...great opportunities for us to perfect our races in time for Easterns," Co-Captain Keith Kaplan said. "We thought that Penn would be geared up for this one, and they did shave about half of their team, but obviously they weren't up to the challenge that our fast swimming gave them...
...Captain David Berkoff failed to lower his NCAA record while leading off the 400 medley relay, but his opening split of 48.49 seconds was fast enough to give the Harvard relay team an insurmountable lead...
...Sometimes when you're in the middle of a taper, you don't swim that well," Tri-Captain Linda Suhs said, "but a lot of people were surprisingly fast...
However, each program will also carry four 30-second ads, causing some educators to worry about the encroachment of commercialism on the classroom. "Do we want our young people to get the idea from school that buying fast food is as important as learning when Columbus discovered America?" asks Patricia Albjerg Graham, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Adds Bella Rosenberg, an official at the American Federation of Teachers: "By showing commercials, schools are implicitly endorsing the product." Others charge that principals are selling their students' souls for a pile of high- tech hardware. Says Peggy Charren...