Word: fastest
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...feat attained by few countries. The fact that double-digit inflation could hit the U.S. too, as it did in 1974-75, came as a shock abroad as well as at home. Now overseas observers see the U.S. bragging that its economy is growing at one of the fastest rates in the industrial world, yet whining fearfully that inflation is likely to result. The spectacle is compounded by the nation's refusal either to cut its $61 billion budget deficit (despite Jimmy Carter's pledge to do so) or to institute a tough wage-price policy to cope...
...fifth in the five-kilometer individual race, a little more than one minute behind the winner, Middlebury's Lindsay Putnam. Then, in the four-times-five-kilometer relay, Rubinowitz skied on a team of individual performers from various eastern schools. The team finished third, as Rubinowitz clocked the second-fastest individual time in the race...
...Feds boast more than 100 boats, but the fastest Coast Guard launch will travel only 28 m.p.h. The smugglers' sleek ocean racers, stripped of galleys and bunks for greater capacity, can do 50 m.p.h. fully loaded. "We are outmanned and outrun," says Coast Guard Commander John Ikens. "They have more money than...
...achieved our goal of breaking the eight-minute mark," Walsh said last night, noting that all four swimmers produced their fastest splits of the season...
...spoke those words is the leader of the National Front, Britain's fastest growing political party and a party which is successfully challenging the Liberals for third place on Britain's political rostrum. The National Front is a modern-day Nazi party, an avowedly racist and nationalist organization whose structure, tactics and goals all recall Hitler's National Socialism. Its surprising progress in recent local elections and by-elections is alarming Britain's political establishment, and provoking violent nationwide debate and confrontation...