Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder Americans are eating them up. Energy-bar sales are expected to hit $500 million in 1998, up 40% in a year. And they have moved from the retail fringe--health-food stores and bike shops--to become a grocery- and convenience-store staple. When Balance Bar, the fastest-growing barmaker, went public last spring, Wall Street tagged it with a "buy" rating and predicted soaring revenues. Industry optimists are hoping that energy bars will eventually match the $2 billion-a-year sales of sport drinks like Gatorade...
Against Lehigh, sophomore Jennie Platt recorded one of the most impressive scoring bursts in Ivy League soccer history, tallying four goals in 11 minutes. Her second goal, coming only 19 seconds after her first, was the fifth-fastest repeated goal in NCAA history. She is also only the third Princeton player to score four goals in one game...
...hygiene and are likely to project a germy wave of saliva into communal food at any time. Totally out of the loop, Harvard kids haven't picked up on the cool new thing--the bird-watching craze. "More and more young people are interested in birding. It's the fastest growing hobby in the country" says the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Natural History Help-line...
...fair river to watch the shells racing by, some gliding as if guided by an ethereal rhythm, others sputtering along like a beat-up old jalopy. If you're lucky, you catch a glimpse of the eight herculean men who comprise the United States National Team's fastest crew; at worst, you get to witness a spectacular crash...
...bird! It's a plane! No, it's Suzuki's Hayabusa (Japanese for falcon), said to be the fastest "street-legal" sport bike ever made. Its 1,300-cc engine and aerodynamic design enable the bike to reach 186 m.p.h., leaving the current champ, the Honda Blackbird, in the dust. What good is having a vehicle that can go three times the speed limit? Ask any guy with a Ferrari...