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...soft wind gets into their hair." In another world, where houses are on wheels and zoom around the city, it is discovered that time moves more slowly for people in motion. In this world, however, the happiest people are those who have stopped competing to live in the fastest house, but instead "rise in the morning, take baths, eat plaited bread and ham, work at their desks, listen to music, talk to their children, lead lives of satisfaction...
Rightsizing. Restructuring. Downsizing. The terms are cold and unemotional. Yet the euphemisms of the early 1990s all mean the same thing: layoffs. Over the past five years, corporate America has been driven by a single-minded mission to gut itself of "excess workers." It was supposed to be the fastest and easiest way to cut business costs, be more competitive and raise profits -- or at least that's what many top executives thought...
Senior Ed Wagner keyed the Crimson's domination by becoming the fastest swimmer in Harvard history, breaking the school record in the 50-yard freestyle with a time...
...psychological too. Retail sales rose 1.2% in December, largely because shoppers who had long been too wary to buy more than they could pay for in cash became willing to go into debt again. Consumer credit rose at a 4.1% annual rate in December to $725.9 billion, the fastest rate in nearly two years. It seems no coincidence that surveys showed consumer confidence rising sharply right after Clinton's victory...
...Teams like ours that gear towards the Eastern Meet use these dual meets for experience," she said. "The true test is who can swim fastest in the championships...