Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fast TAXI, bouncy MORK, slow BEGINNING, odd KIDS...
...combination, have been shown to lift productivity in large companies such as General Motors, Texas Instruments and IBM, as well as medium-size firms. Little-known Lincoln Electric of Cleveland gives productivity bonuses that come close to equaling regular wages. One result is that productivity has risen so fast that since 1934 prices for Lincoln's products have increased only one-fifth as much as the consumer price index. Professor Grayson sees that as good proof of his thesis that higher productivity can whip inflation...
...typical tune will start with a strong melodic hook-sometimes tough, sometimes close to lilting-then build in volume and intensity, the instruments laying under and layering on one another until the song shatters around your ears like a sheet of glass falling off a fast-moving truck. This is heavy-metal music with easy-listening inflections, rock fierce enough for the FM stations, flighty enough to fit right into Top 40 AM radio...
...please do not think I am going to do the same things I did many years ago. This car has been in a museum and soon I will be in a museum too." Fangio warmed up by driving in a regularity trial with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, a fast-car enthusiast, sitting in the mechanic's seat. Then in an event billed as "The Race of Champions" Fangio drove alone in the Mercedes, touching 165 m.p.h. during the 8.7-mile course and crossing the finish line one length behind three-time World Champion Jack Brabham...
...veteran of some 30 accidents, replied, "No, not really. If I did I think I would give it up." The fatal wreck stirred fellow drivers to demand either the closing or complete remodeling of the 56-year-old Monza course, considered by many to be too narrow and fast a track...