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Word: fasters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenge-re-entry of earth's atmosphere. Jettisoning the service module and its trusty SPS engine, the astronauts yawed their cone-shaped command module until its blunt end was forward and then plunged into the outer atmosphere at a speed of 24,629 m.p.h.-some 7,000 m.p.h. faster than re-entry speeds of orbital missions. Roaring down into the thickening atmosphere within a sliver of the planned angle of 6.43°, Apollo passed over Peking and Tokyo, the temperature of its heat shield rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VOYAGE: POETRY AND PERFECTION | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...discoveries made a prophet in his own time of Cornell Astrophysicist Thomas Gold, who last spring predicted that pulsars with faster rates would soon be discovered and that some might well be detected in the process of slowing down. The findings also supported the contention that pulsars are actually neutron stars, strange celestial bodies that were mathematically postulated by scientists in the 1930s but have not yet been proved to exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astrophysics: A Mystery Ticking Slower | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

When Congress finally got around to enacting the surtax at midyear, much of its effect was washed away by another big factor. While taxes went up, wages went up much faster. During the year's first nine months, about 3,400,000 unionized workers won pay raises averaging 7.5% annually, the largest gain since the Labor Department started keeping track 14 years ago. For the year as a whole, wages and benefits rose about 7%, while productivity increased only 3.2%. The result was that so-called unit labor costs jumped 3.8% -and the consumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Economy in 1968: An Expansion That Would Not Quit | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...make little real progress toward economic stability, either at home or abroad, until it ropes in inflation. So long as prices and demand rise at today's pace, imports will continue to increase much faster than ex ports, and the integrity of the dollar will be doubted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Economy in 1968: An Expansion That Would Not Quit | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...with pro potential are hard to find in college ball, but Didion comes closest among the 1968 seniors. A crisp, sure blocker, he is adept at opening up the middle, cutting off the blitz or dropping back for pass protection. One scout says that Didion "gets on the linebacker faster than any other center I've seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TIME's All-America: The Pick of the Pros | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

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