Word: faster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lows against the Japanese yen. To Washington's alarm, the dollar fell not only against the strong German, Swiss and Japanese currencies but also against some of the world's weakest moneys?the Italian lira, the Spanish peseta, even the Canadian dollar, which earlier had fallen further and faster than its U.S. cousin...
...vague smile or nod. The adrenaline is just beginning to flow now, just beginning to lift us. We look at the altimeters on our wrists or chest bands the way commuters look at their watches while waiting for a bus. As the needle climbs, the adrenaline begins to flow faster. We fuss with our equipment, checking again the closures on jumpsuits, the buckles on parachute harnesses, the positions of rip cords on the pilot chutes that will deploy canopies and break our headlong fall to earth...
...show's most deyastating fault is its length. It runs almost three hours if you include the fifteen minute intermission. This would be excusable if the pace were faster and the humor more sophisticated, but the show drags horribly through long sections of both acts...
...livestock that we will see the great revolution of the next 20 years. We will be producing more meat less expensively, and we will have the opportunity for much more export." He is crossing U.S. breeds with European stock to produce "exotic" cattle that grow fatter faster or produce more milk. This is done by artificial insemination. Says Garst: "We have one of the largest accumulations of exotic semen from Europe...
Computer-on-a-chip may become even faster...