Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they couldn't find their way through fast enough...
...Index, with its acontextual presentation of pre-cooked information represents the ultimate reduction ad absurdum of fast-food culture. But its not a bland offering, as the biases of the editors are clear. When the hyper-trivial is left aside, the statistics in the Index take potent swipes at the American zeitgeist and all its hypocricy and self-indulgence...
Broker Walter Burke pauses amid the plaintive calls from his customers. "Everyone's scared," he says. "They're bailing out." But he finds one consolation. "A fast death," he philosophizes, "is better than a slow...
...serve as human scarecrows. With eyes full of parasitic worms and skin covered by itchy nodules, the adults suffer from onchocerciasis, a disease that afflicts 18 million people in the developing world and permanently blinds 500,000 each year. The worms are spread by black flies, which breed near fast-flowing tropical streams -- hence the name river blindness. Last week New Jersey-based Merck & Co. announced that it will begin distributing ivermectin, a drug that halts onchocerciasis, to affected countries...
...then, slowly at first, the anxiety began to take on a shape that could be sensed if not exactly foreseen. On all the world's stock exchanges, prices had leaped up too far, too fast, to be sustained. The mood in the markets shifted from fantasy about instant wealth to nervousness about an inevitable "correction" (a wonderful euphemism). By Monday morning the concern was no longer vague but had taken on physical form -- piles of papers littering brokers' desks, each representing a hastily scribbled order to sell stock; rows of numbers flashing on computer screens, bringing news of alarming price...