Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Councillors insisted on knowing why Rudolph couldn't proceed faster on the installation of traffic signals. As Rudolph explained them his difficulties are twofold. First, he is overburdened with routine work. For example, he said, just several weeks ago, one of his new traffic patterns in Brattle Square had angered a local businessman so much that the Director had to make a special study of the Brattle area. And, then, he continued, during every snow-storm he is faced with the minor crisis of clearing Cambridge's streets and getting traffic moving. These excuses seemed weak...
...second reason that Rudolph isn't moving faster seemed to be even more crucial: he needed an assistant, someone who could help him handle the complicated problems of planning an electronically-controlled traffic system. He had been looking for such a man for months, and his luck had been minimal. The market is tight. Right now, he has a man who would take a permanent job, but would not come to Cambridge on a provisional basis and risk his job later being taken away in a competitive Civil Service exam...
...interpretive journalism is now a staple of the U.S. press, and many magazines and newspapers do a better job than the Monitor. Furthermore, they do it faster. By the time the Monitor, which is printed and mailed from Boston, Los Angeles and London, reaches its subscribers all over the world, the chances are that they have already read almost all it has to offer...
Since nothing can travel faster than light, any object that changes in brilliance cannot be larger than the distance light would travel during the period of fluctuation. Even the crowded nuclei of normal galaxies are many thousand light-years in diameter, so no known influence could cross them quickly enough to make them flicker on a monthly tempo. An object that flickers so fast would have to be less than one light-year in diameter, unless it follows physical laws that are wholly unsuspected by human scientists...
...result of these events was an orderly, well-balanced expansion. Productivity rose faster than wages, and personal incomes rose much faster than prices. For the first time, consumer spending reached the $400 billion mark, personal income topped $500 billion, and the gross national product exceeded $600 billion, having risen during the year by $40 billion-half as much as the total gross national product of prospering France...