Word: fastest
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...decade's worth of arguments about who has won and who has lost from changes in federal taxes and spending, one item has tended to get overlooked. It's one of the fastest-growing items on the federal books: interest on the national debt. It has more than tripled, from $52 billion in 1980 to $179 billion in 1990. It is closing in on Social Security ($222 billion) as the Government's largest transfer program...
...Reynosa. That means, says Reynosa, that in addition to having limited or nonexistent English, many of the students must cope with the pressures of grinding poverty (a median family income of $17,000; 18% on welfare) and the anomie common to refugees. And since Hispanics are America's fastest-growing ethnic group, San Fernando's problems will be increasingly echoed throughout U.S. public education...
...Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, had hoped that the current combination of relatively high interest rates and sluggish growth would dampen price increases. But the Labor Department said last week that consumer prices rose 0.5% in March, bringing the annual inflation rate in the first quarter to 8.5%, the fastest pace in nearly eight years. "What's so scary about the number is that it's going to take more pain and punishment to bring inflation down," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisers...
Despite the low cadence at the end of the race, the Crimson turned in the fastest time of the day, six seconds quicker than the nearest competitor...
...other semis, UCLA zipped past Princeton to win by a length. UCLA turned in the fastest time of the morning, setting up a rematch of the San Diego finals...