Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...momentum is with us," boasts Father Ed Roden, a key organizer. "The people rose up; they're getting action." Change never comes nicely, Alinsky's disciples preach. Nor fast. Sister will be content if a few hundred water hookups can be made by year's end. That will be a signal the colonias are on the road to controlling their own destiny...
RIDING A SMALL, FAST-MOVING VEHICLE. Anticipating the collapse, the managers of suburban Chicago's relatively tiny Mathers Fund moved 62% of its assets into cash in the months before Oct. 19. Then they plunged back into the market during the last 45 minutes of Black Monday and kept buying for nine days. Since then, their purchases have surged in value, helping to boost the Mathers Fund from $154 million in assets just before the crash to $201 million now. Its increase of 27% during 1987 was the best performance by any U.S. growth fund...
Suburban Chicago's Oberweis Securities, a fast-growing small firm before the crash, abruptly halted its expansion plans this year. James Oberweis, the company chairman, decided to diversify by selling 50.1% of his brokerage to another firm and expanding his family's dairy company by buying a chain of ice-cream shops. Says Oberweis: "The ice-cream business is a lot better than the brokerage business these days...
...throw, he definitely has an arm," defensive back Anthony Smith says. "When the ball comes to me when we are throwing the ball around, it looks like it's not coming that fast. But when it reaches me, it's a bullet. He reminds me of [Chicago Bears quarterback] Jim McMahon...
This distinction is fast disappearing, however, as the rest of Cambridge begins to emulate the Harvard Square miracle. And this month, a new restaurant called the First Street Cafe became yet another example of just how quickly this change is taking place...