Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sure, it's fun to go fast. But several lawmakers complained last week that matters were whizzing by out of control when Congress agreed to allow states to raise the speed limit to 65 m.p.h. on local highways. In a feat of legislative legerdemain, proponents of the higher speed limit attached an amendment to the $600 billion 1988 spending bill, bypassing the safety-minded House Public Works and Transportation Committee...
...look at tonight's game, there's always the rematch in late February. But that one's in Canton. And tickets are going fast...
...chief executive who spearheaded the company's American marketing drive, Peter Schutz, 57, has been pushed out of the firm by the Porsche family. His replacement, former Deputy Chairman Heinz Branitzki, 58, is expected to maintain the new austerity until Porsche gets back on the fast track...
...world's largest computer maker has long shied away from the industry's most advanced field of all: supercomputers, the lightning-fast machines that can make billions of calculations per second. Last week IBM suddenly announced that it is souping up. In an unorthodox arrangement for a company that develops most of its projects internally, Big Blue plans to join forces with an outsider, Steve Chen, a leading supercomputer designer, to develop a machine for the 1990s that will be 100 times faster than today's speediest devices. Chen started his own tiny research company, Supercomputer Systems, of Eau Claire...
...event, the Stavropol period remains the most obscure of Gorbachev's life. It is known that he rose fast, from a minor job in the local Komsomol to its first secretary after less than a year, then through a variety of Komsomol and, later, party jobs. By 1962, when he was only 31, he was choosing party members for promotion throughout Stavropol Krai. Finally in 1970, at the age of 39, he became first secretary of the territory, a job equivalent to governor of an area roughly the size of South Carolina, with about 2.4 million people. Along...