Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leary pointed out that the heavies still pulled their oars at an unusually fast pace...
...past, the team has worked on improving defense, counter-attack, and, this week, playing in a narrow pool. Harvard is a fast team, and therefore has a disadvantage playing in smaller pools like the one at MIT. The Crimson's performance at MIT shows that its work has come to fruition...
...Beekmans and Rikers and in the 19th century a chic suburb for the well-to-do. Then, around 1880, the city extended its elevated lines to the north. Handsome neighborhoods sprang up, and by the early 1900s, Harlem bustled with urbanity. But the speculators had built too much too fast. So in 1904 a black real estate agent named Philip A. Payton rented apartments to blacks who were even then being displaced from their midtown homes by the new Pennsylvania Station railyards. The scheme succeeded beyond the speculators' wildest nightmares. By the 1920s, Harlem was mostly black...
Experts tracking the cause and effect are coming to see how progress has carried hidden costs. "Technology is increasing the heartbeat," says Manhattan architect James Trunzo, who designs "automated environments." "We are inundated with information. The mind can't handle it all. The pace is so fast now, I sometimes feel like a gunfighter dodging bullets." In business especially, the world financial markets almost never close, so why should the heavy little eyes of an ambitious baby banker? "There is now a new supercomputer that operates at a trillionth of a second," says Robert Schrank, a management consultant...
...Some fast-lane veterans who are fed up with their harried working conditions are trying other escape routes, including climbing down the corporate ladder. Trading in a big salary for a lower-level job with more vacation time, flexible hours, improved maternity or paternity leave, even weekends off may seem a luxury, but it is one that many people are choosing. Dann Pottinger, 42, nephew and grandson of Florida bank presidents, was CEO of Commercial State Bank of Orlando, one of the most profitable independent banks in central Florida. This winter he chaired the search committee to select his replacement...