Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight to balance the budget, there may be just one that neither Republicans nor Democrats dare to abandon: the pleasure principle. It rests on two basic premises. The first is that if you make voters happy, they repay the kindness at election time. The second is that the fastest way to their hearts is through their wallets. As Gingrich put it in November, "No politician in the 20th century has been defeated for cutting taxes...
...JAVA Neither island nor coffee, this miniaturized programming language from Sun Microsystems can add sparkle and interactivity to the most sluggish home page on the World Wide Web, the fastest growing part of the Internet. Rivals--IBM, Microsoft and even Netscape--have all agreed to adopt it as a kind of Esperanto...
...achievement contagious but so too is the driven and assertive character commonly encountered. One cannot passively approach the Harvard experience, for one will be trampled on by the masses of students who know exactly where they would like to go and are determined to do so in the fastest way possible. Individuals, therefore, are pushed to assert themselves strongly so as to thrive in the struggle for academic excellence, a goal towards which we are all so decisively directed...
Younger stayed steady, winning the race by more than five seconds with a time, of 9:13.37--his best unrested time in the 1000m. Marks came in second, beating the fastest Army swimmer by seven seconds...
...More women are seeing movies. They are, according to recent surveys, the fastest-growing segment of frequent ticket buyers (up 19% in two years). An adult woman on a date is more likely to choose the movie, and when not dating is more likely to see a film with other women than a man is with other men. Women represent upwards of 60% of the video market, which is where Hollywood makes its real money: video brings in 2 1/2 times as much as the box office does. If there is a large female audience--plus a healthy portion...