Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...birth of a band: at a London flat some eight years ago, Shane MacGowan, who had more of his teeth back then, picked up a guitar and started to play an old Irish tune, Paddy Worked at the Railways. He played it fast; he played it very fast, in the best postpunk, frontal-assault style. His pal Spider Stacy clocked MacGowan's hands at "940 light-years an hour." That time, of course, was unofficial. But looking back now, it has become the official beginning of the Pogues...
...executives with little room for error. "Running an LBO is different from running other companies," says Wilbur Ross, a senior managing director of Rothschild Inc., a New York City investment firm. "The reaction time at LBO companies has got to be a lot quicker, because they must generate cash fast enough to beat those interest-payment deadlines...
...Burro" because it stops at almost every station along the 900-mile route, is patronized almost entirely by poor Mexicans. It left Mazatlan at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, and had gone about 250 miles when the accident occurred at about 4 a.m. Police said they did not know how fast the train was going at the time...
...Currently, the IEM is the fast track to becoming a college president in America," Levine says. "[Ten] percent of presidents in the country are alumni of the program...
Iowa bar officials arrived at the scene of the Sioux City crash nearly as fast as the doctors did. They were determined to head off a well-known postcrash problem: unscrupulous lawyers soliciting clients on the scene in violation of ethics codes. Representatives of the state bar set up an office at the health center where many of the survivors had been taken for treatment. Bar officials also placed an ad in the Sioux City Journal asking people to call if they knew of any unethical contacts by attorneys. None were reported...