Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Phar-Mor, the largest and fastest-growing U.S. deep discount drugstore chain -- with 306 stores in 33 states -- sought bankruptcy court protection after firing president Michael Monus and chief financial officer Patrick Finn and taking a $350 million write-off. The company claimed that Monus and Finn embezzled $10 million and overstated profits, then sued its accountants, Coopers & Lybrand, for failing to spot the fraud. Coopers countersued, accusing Phar-Mor executives of providing false and misleading figures to audit...
Next, Gore will travel across the Charles River to Thinking Machines, an East Cambridge computer company. Thinking Machines designs, manufactures and sells some of the world's fastest supercomputers...
...Spangled Banner playing over the Bernat Picornell Pool but the strains of another anthem. And the man who lays claim to being the new Johnny Weissmuller, the new Mark Spitz, the new Matt Biondi, is a fellow from Volgograd named Popov, winner of the 50-m free and the fastest swimmer of the XXVth Olympiad...
...many as five events. Sanders, maybe the team's most complete swimmer, is in the 100-m and 200-m butterfly and the 200-m and 400-m individual medley, plus a possible relay. She is likely to win only twice -- teammate Crissy Ahmann-Leighton is the fastest active 100-m butterflyer in the world, and Sanders tends to lose rhythm in the final freestyle laps of the medleys -- yet she could be somewhere on the victory podium five times...
...become the world's best long jumper. In June, Lewis ate the dust of Mark Witherspoon and Dennis Mitchell at the 100-m U.S. Olympic trials. Shockingly he failed to qualify for either the 100- or 200-m sprints. In Barcelona for his third Olympic appearance, the world's fastest man has an outside shot at being chosen for the 4 X 100 m-U.S. relay team. But he's only guaranteed a chance to compete in the long jump, and is not assured a medal there. Still he has stuck to his usual training regimen, and the preternatural...