Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was a true heartbreaker. Fayer swam the fastest qualifying time, and indeed the fastest time of the day (0:25.79), but in the final, Dartmouth's Nancy Gildan came up with an excellent turn and won it by, well, a fingernail...
...collectors tend to be young, well educated, discriminating, and they know what they want. Many of them want Americana, probably the fastest growing segment of the New York antiques market. Prices have skyrocketed. Twelve years ago, a pair of paintings by Ammi Phillips, a 19th century naive artist, sold for $10,000. Last April a pair of Phillips paintings went for $44,000 at auction ?and were reportedly resold within a month for twice that amount...
...speed of sound at more than 85,000 ft. Armed with electronic "spoofing" gadgetry capable of disrupting enemy tracking systems and even wiping its own image off a radar scope, the plane is nicknamed "Blackbird" for its sooty heat-resistant paint job. The world's highest-flying and fastest manned airplane, the SR-71 can travel more than 2,000 m.p.h. Though the U.S. has honored Eisenhower's promise, in 1967, as Communist Chinese nuclear technicians triggered their first hydrogen bomb, they were stunned by a blip moving across the radar scope; Blackbird was photographing the whole show...
This year, says the Department of Commerce, aerospace industry shipments could reach $37 billion, a 30% jump over last year. That would make aerospace the fastest-growing segment of U.S. manufacturing. About $9 billion worth of U.S. planes will be sold overseas, possibly narrowing the yawning U.S. trade deficit of $11 billion...
...last Harvard winner against Coast Guard was heavyweight Craig Beling. Beling disposed of the Bears' heavyweight with a pin at 2:58 in the match. MIT's heavyweight, John Stenard, only lasted 21 seconds against Beling, as the Crimson heavyweight recorded the fastest...