Word: faster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spent for new sewers in working-class neighborhoods. He also opposes as "ripoffs" the city's practice of offering tax abatements to businesses locating in distressed areas. One consequence: Cleveland (pop. 660,000) will probably continue to lose manufacturing jobs-65,000 since 1969-and population at a faster rate than any other major U.S. city. Kucinich's views have led to fights with the city council, which so far has overruled him on 13 issues...
...biologists and fishermen were already giving a fairly bleak assessment of the long-term damage. Because the Amoco Cadiz's oil is lighter and was released closer to the French shore than that from the Torrey Canyon, which blackened the English coast a decade ago, it had spread faster and penetrated deeper into Brittany's many inlets and estuaries. Even farther out to sea many food fish, except possibly sole, which stay near the bottom, will be contaminated. The season's take of crabs, including green crabs used for bouillabaisse, may be wiped out. In addition, ornithologists...
...most meaningful work, but here, as in all his other films, Russell's only evident meaning lies aching behind his zipper. "Was it too much for you?" Oliver Reed asks Alan Bates after they finish a wrestling match in the raw, the homosexual hints dripping off their bodies faster than sweat. Then the line pops up again, this time after Reed has been rollicking in the snow with Glenda Jackson: "Was it too much for you," he asked her, as the irony subtly smashes our way. This is too much, period...
...have to get a little faster but it's not just technique. You can be small and strong and you can be more fit. You have to be all these to beat a bigger crew," Parker added...
...stroke Doug Woodsaid yesterday. "Theywere a very good crew. We have no excuses. They were just faster." He went on to admit, however, "We had not had enough practice at high cadence. We had done some work at 36, but it takes a while to get your wind accustomed to that...