Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican hopes, the voters favored Nixon and Rockefeller over Romney for the presidential nomination. "What about Reagan?" some constituents asked Ford. "He's coming up fast," he replied diplomatically. Ford consistently defended such targets as President Johnson, the Supreme Court, Negroes and the poverty program against abusive attacks from extremist supporters. He even refused to capitalize on the pervasive disaffection with the Viet Nam war, insisting: "It is no longer an issue. We're in it deep. What is at issue is the conduct of the war." His prescription for victory: more effective bombing...
...meeting got off to a fast start as the ministers churned out a steady stream of "agreements in principle" on the pace and percentages of the first tariff cuts. They even went along with Uruguay's plea that "an acute economic and financial crisis" entitles it to be classed among the "less developed" countries for the next five years, despite the fact that its people normally enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the LAFTA region. But such happy harmony was soon shattered when the three other "less developed" nations-Paraguay, Bolivia and Ecuador-demanded that their...
Professors of architecture attacked the project as either too small or too costly. Proposed changes in Le Corbusier's original sketches came thick and fast. But after five years of persistent lobbying, Heidi finally won a 50-year lease from the city council on a prime lakeside park site. Backers were nonexistent. She herself raised or bor rowed 95% of the building's $120,000 cost. Some critics huffily insisted that Heidi had altered too many architectural details after the master's death...
Imagine that the fast life of a bird sang in the branches of the cold cast-off antlers of a stag...
Evidence for these conclusions is only six months old but has been accumulating so fast that last week the National Foundation-March of Dimes called an emergency meeting of top geneticists to consider the problem...