Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't practice any harder over the summer than he usually does. He didn't find a pair of magic track shoes in his locker one day. Just all of a sudden, Doug Hardin got fast...
Hardin has his own style of running -- he's a plugger. "I'm not fast. I don't have speed, but I can take a fast pace. I doesn't hurt me as much at the end." He doesn't have much of a kick. But Doug will kill you with his perseverence. He stuck so close to McKusick in the Cornell meet that even the Big Red sensation couldn't stand the pace and cramped...
...noted that the 727 is built to get in and out of airports quickly, therefore has steep climb and descent rates. In the Cincinnati crash, the pilot simply descended too fast and probably did not pay enough attention to his altimeter. The CAB had already made a similar finding in a United Air Lines crash in Salt Lake City. There have been no rulings yet on the two other 727 crashes, one outside Tokyo and the other near Chicago...
Public Bank was set up in 1957 with an eye toward the fast-growing consumer-loan business. In 1965, the bank's stock peaked at $34 a share; at year's end it had $117 million in deposits, ranked 340th among the nation's 14,000 commercial banks. But despite such apparent success, there were signs of shakiness. Its president resigned last December; his successor left a scant two months later. When President James A. McGuire arrived in March, the bank was already in deep trouble...
...size; by analyzing the variations in pulse amplitude caused by the satellite's rotation or merely by its passage across the sky, they can determine its shape with remarkable precision. By determining the time it takes the pulse pattern to repeat itself, they can learn how fast the distant space craft is tumbling, rolling or spinning around its axes...