Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final margin of victory was six seconds on the tide-aided Harlem. "I sensed it wasn't our fastest race by a long shot," Potter said, "it was more like a workout...
...mere 80 years later, a second billion had been added, and by 1960 a third. The 5 billion mark is estimated to be only 13 years away, and by 2012 world population could be 8 billion. The country with the world's fastest-growing population in terms of annual percentage increases is Kuwait at 5.9%, the slowest, East Germany at -.3%. The U.S. growth rate...
...dangers. The genre is by and large prospering: while magazines in general lost advertising pages in 1975, city magazines as a group increased their ads by some 1,100 pages over 1974, a gain of more than 10%. In fact, four of the five U.S. monthlies with the fastest growing advertising volume are city magazines...
Unfortunately, graduation is not the only form of attrition. Four players, Dave Anish, Scott Clemson, Al Senior, and Mike Doherty--the fastest man on the team--took the year off. Another three, Charlie Coolidge, Tom Hagerty, and Jeff Flanders, left the program. Hagerty and Flanders were slated to start on defense...
ISRAEL now has more tanks, armored vehicles and long-range artillery than ever, most of it from the U.S. Next year the Israeli air force will take delivery of the first of 25 F-15 Eagles, the newest, fastest (top speed: Mach 2.5) and most agile U.S. fighter. Israel's other combat planes (principally F-4 Phantoms and the Israeli-designed Kfirs) are being outfitted with the latest electronic gadgets to aid in night flying missions and foil antiaircraft missiles. The Shrike air-to-surface missile has been deployed to knock out the radars on which antiaircraft batteries depend...