Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a general tax rise is mandatory if the U.S. is to escape what might be a runaway boom (see BUSINESS). The gross national product grew at a frenetic $20 billion pace during the first quarter, while consumer prices soared at the rate of at least 4% a year-faster than at any other period since the Korean War year...
...their season-opening tri-meet last fall, the Crimson harriers discovered that the faster team always wins, even when the faster team runs in the wrong direction. It seemed that two miles into the race against the powerful Providence College Friars and the Massachusetts Minutemen, the leaders, most of whom were wearing Friar jerseys, got a bit confused by the course's markings and began running a course of their own design...
...simple comparison of last Saturday's times with Harvard performances is misleading because Princeton ran on Penn's "Tartan" track, a composition of cork and rubber which is faster than Harvard's cinder surface...
Under what he called pressure-vacuum production, Nordhoff kept materials flowing heavily into his plant and insisted on immediate delivery of cars to customers. The combination, he believed, exerted psychological pressure on workers to produce faster. In six months, production almost trebled to 1,800 cars a month...
...between time and space is more than impressive. He has discovered that slow movement (of space crafts, for example) is as impressive on a Cinerama screen as fast movement (the famous Cinerama roller-coaster approach), also that properly timed sequences of slow movement actually appear more real--sometimes even faster--than equally long long sequences of fast motion shots. No film in history achieves the degree of three-dimensional depth maintained consistently in 2001 (and climaxed rhapsodically in a shot of a pulsating stellar galaxy); Kubrick frequently focuses our attention to one side of the wide screen, then introduces...