Word: faster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these statistics applicable only to men. The Japanese tend to gloss over the problem of alcoholism among women. What is known is that 42% of Japanese women-a rise of 18% from eight years ago-drink "occasionally." Japanese women, in fact, are becoming alcoholics faster than their menfolk. "Most women alcoholics are kitchen drinkers," says Yoko Shibata, a professor of medicine at Toho University. "With husbands at work and children in school, they drink out of loneliness and become addicted in six years, compared with ten years for men." Shibata adds that Japanese women tend to become manic-depressive, which...
...Otto Eckstein, chief of Data Resources Inc., the surest sign of strength is "the employment explosion." Surprisingly, employment is growing much faster than production; new jobs are opening up at a rate of 4 million a year. Productivity has declined sharply, so perhaps more people are needed to do the work. But Eckstein points to one big reason for the jump in jobs: "Businessmen see a lot of demand out there, and they hired many people because they know that business will be good this year...
...American League Rookie of the Year in 1970, and then proceeded to disappear from the limelight faster than Zager and Evans...
...explosions increase outside, so, too--almost imperceptibly--does the speed and tempo of our bomb shelter party inside. The singing becomes louder, the dancing faster, the laughter more frenzied--as if in defiance of the surrounding mortar attacks. Even the youngest children seem to understand and follow their parents' example...
...confident," Rothstein said yesterday. "Quinsigamond is a weird lake--there can be a head wind in the middle where the top seeds are, while the rest is flat, calm water. In equal conditions we're going to be hard to beat. We're psyched, and we're still getting faster--I think...