Word: faster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case for a second factory is strong. For one thing, Americans are buying small fuel-efficient autos at a faster pace than ever. Since the onset of the gasoline squeeze at the pump last spring, foreign imports have steadily expanded their share of the U.S. auto market, and in May accounted for a record 24.3% of all cars sold. During the first six months of this year, while sales of U.S. autos fell 7.9% below last year's level, forcing the carmakers to cut back production and lay off workers, foreign automakers sold 14.7% more cars. Volkswagen...
...rowing canal in the Moscow suburb of Krylatskoe is the best in Europe, even though the stands, seating 10,000, were erected on the wrong side for the prevailing winds, sheltering the inner two lanes and making them calmer and faster than the outer...
...tempting to settle back and watch the ads parade by--it may be monotonous but there is a certain sense to it--but one is constantly distracted by noise from below. One of the features of modern society that Sellars reads into Mayakovsky's vision seems to be a faster pace of life. As the play progresses, he raises decibel levels and frequencies, accelerates speech to screeching chatter and winds his actors up to near-epilepsy. And then suddenly--catanoia: the most tedious final fifteen minutes you'll ever want...
...Third World, then gradually introduce it into the U.S. Perhaps in five years people may be able to buy it throughout the country, for a penny or so more a bottle than Coke or Tab, because it is costlier to make and the company aims to profit. Moving faster would be hard, Austin points out, because Coca-Cola is already at full production with its regular soft drinks...
...sport's glamour event. Coe, 22, a Sheffield engineer's son, who was relatively unknown and had run the mile only twice before, had not only whipped a field of a dozen top competitors but did it in a time of 3:49-.4 of a second faster than the mark set by New Zealand's John Walker in 1975. Moreover, just twelve days before, on the same track, Coe had taken the 800-meter race in 1:42.3, lopping more than a second off the 1977 record held by Cuba's Alberto Juantorena...