Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...safe-sex campaign aimed at prostitutes has worked. The rate of HIV INFECTION among young men in Thailand, home to one of the world's fastest-growing AIDS epidemics, is half what it was in 1991. That's when the government unleashed a media blitz and began providing condoms to brothels...
...although it took three false starts and a petulant protest by Great Britain's Linford Christie, who was disqualified for two of them, before the gun sounded for good. Bailey ran down Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Ato Boldon of Trinidad to become the world's fastest human--ever. He also helped erase the Seoul stigma of Ben Johnson, who like Bailey was a Jamaican running for Canada. "I'm not trying to do what Ben did, or undo what Ben did in Seoul," he said. "My name is Donovan Bailey...
...pool at the Georgia Tech aquatic center was supposed to be the fastest in the world, but it yielded more surprises than world records (four). While teammates like Janet Evans and Amanda Beard got all the pre-Olympic hype, the charmingly gawky Van Dyken stole the show with an unprecedented four gold medals. Michelle Smith, another relative unknown from Ireland, a nation not heretofore known for its aquatics, won three races. The U.S. men's 4 x 100 freestyle relay team of Gary Hall Jr., Jon Olsen, Josh Davis and Brad Schumacher not only kept America's unbeaten streak...
...Olympics. The 23-year-old Coloradan, daughter of a software-company president, anchored two relay victories, in the 4x100-m freestyle and the 4x100-m medley, and captured two individual golds, in the 100-m butterfly and the 50-m freestyle--a win that crowns her "the world's fastest woman" in water. She also charmed a worldwide television audience with her exuberant personality. "I'm really stubborn," she reflected, recalling her treatment in high school. "If someone tells me I stink, I'm going to try to prove them wrong...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton called a Rose Garden press conference this morning to announce that the U.S. economy had grown at a heady 4.2 percent from April to June, the fastest growth since 1994. "This is good news for America, more evidence that our economic strategy is working," said Clinton. Investor fears that the Federal Reserve will hike short-term interest rates to ward off the inflation that usually accompanies rapid growth have been eased by reports that inflation is not heating up. (While the GDP rose 4.2 percent, the price index climbed just 2 percent.) In response to this...