Word: fastest
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...Carl Lewis didn't do it. If anyone might have been expected to break Beamon's record, Lewis was it. He is the king of track and field. Earlier last week Lewis proved he could still be the fastest human alive, when he set a new world record of 9.86 sec. to take the 100-m gold medal at the World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo. And even though the muggy, sea-level Japanese capital was hardly ideal for breaking the long-jump record, Lewis was going to try. In an astonishing series, he turned in the greatest sequence...
There are exceptions. The nine-year-old Metropolitan Assembly of God, located in a Do the Right Thing neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., goes all-out to recruit restless teenagers and has a 9,000-student Sunday school. While many of the fastest-growing congregations are young, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Ind., famous for its armada of Sunday-school buses, has been a Fundamentalist fixture for decades...
...recipe for trouble? For a civilization that may be the fastest changing in Europe, France has shown remarkable resilience and political staying power. The existential debate has not deflected Mitterrand from his nouveau Gaullism, a policy of working with and through Germany to secure a decisive say over the Continent's future. In the E.C.'s halls of power France remains paramount, and relations with Washington, prickly at the best of times, are on a surer footing...
Opportunities also abound in the Pacific, the fastest-growing airline market in the world. But Northwest, which recently gave way to United as the largest U.S. carrier to Asia, is hard pressed to match its stronger rivals. Its parent firm is burdened with heavy interest payments on some $1.5 billion in takeover debt. And the airline lost $62 million on revenues of $1.6 billion during the first three months of this year...
...advice goes, you can't show greed. It's the fastest thing that gets you killed. Also, when you're around the boss, don't drink. See, when a guy drinks, his feelings come out. What Scarfo would do, and he was famous for this, was take everyone to dinner and order double margaritas. Then he'd start talking about people, and he wants to see who chimes in, wants to see what they got to say. He'd make a guy drink and drink and talk and talk until there was no more talk left in him. I never...