Word: fasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Spain's only reply has been intensified pressure on the Rock. The British intend to stand fast, feeling that they have by far the stronger case. After all, Gibraltarians, almost to a man, want to remain under British rule. As if to underline this fact, hundreds of the Rock's residents gathered near the border last week to sing God Save the Queen and intone the Beatle ditty called "The Yellow Submarine" as the gate swung closed...
...goods and services, provides one job out of seven, fields 57% of the world's passenger vehicles, nearly 100,000 private and commercial aircraft and half the free world's railroad rolling stock. Still, the system is not good enough for a nation that is growing as fast as the U.S. in population, prosperity and technology. In fact, its liabilities are so great that they are carrying the nation toward a crisis in transportation. If the demand for transportation in the U.S. continues to match the nation's current economic growth, it will double...
...esthetics." If the U.S. is to head off its looming transportation crisis, the job has to be started soon. Otherwise, the penalty is sure to be a further erosion of that most cherished prerogative of the peripatetic American: the ability to go places at will, and to get there fast...
Among the fast-proliferating journals that report on assorted scientific specialties, few are even remotely comprehensible to the average layman. And many a literate scientist admits to being all but stupefied by their jargon-filled contents. One notable exception among such somber publications is the sprightly Worm Runner's Digest, which serves up its well-edited and important scientific papers along with side dishes of humorous satires, poems and cartoons...
Moreover, the companies have quietly called a truce in the profit-depleting gasoline price wars. After dipping last year, gas prices have returned to their 1964 levels. Overseas markets, long hindered by overproduction and underpricing, have also become healthier. In fast-motorizing Western Europe, gasoline sales are growing 12% a year (TIME, Sept...