Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision to turn down the NHL in favor of Europe didn't surprise many of MacDonald's teammates or coaches, who expected him to opt for the fast-skating style of international hockey rather than the more physical NHL. MacDonald traveled to both Sweden and Switzerland in the past month to check out different international programs...
...best. But for the past several years, experimental drugs have first been available on the AIDS black market, through which patients who felt they had little to lose began their own treatment programs. The FDA, responding to intense public pressure to demonstrate both compassion and efficiency, has established a "fast track" for the approval of AIDS drugs. However, that streamlining may have permanently distorted the traditional protections afforded by careful drug studies. Some scientists are demanding a stop to self-experimentation...
...machine's move from freeze-frame to fast-forward has not been easy. For starters, Go-Video could find no Japanese companies, which control manufacture of crucial VCR parts, willing to provide needed components. For another thing, U.S. movie studios opposed the machine. So the company sued 15 Japanese and Korean makers, plus the Hollywood studios, claiming restraint of trade. Several manufacturers have now settled with Go-Video, and Korea's Samsung is tooling up to produce the VCR-2. Meanwhile, Hollywood has modified its opposition because Go-Video agreed to install circuitry that will prevent the VCR-2 from...
Analysts attribute the decrease to growing interest among women in pursuing careers, limited availability of full-time day-care services and a fast-rising cost of living. Other factors include housing shortages in the cities and the 1978 legalization of abortion...
...economy, desultory even in the best of times, is now virtually shut ! down. Automobile, tire and auto-parts production have come to a stop. Ranchers have halted delivery of cattle because they are being paid with uncashable checks. The government cannot print money fast enough, so a severe cash shortage has prompted bank closings. Because the austral has lost 90% of its value since February, most people try to conduct their business in U.S. dollars, although it is now illegal to do so. According to private estimates, what is left of the economy runs on $500 million worth of austral...