Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...export pounds or dollars to build plants abroad, businesses evaded the controls by borrowing in the Eurodollar market. The amount of Eurodollars available for borrowing sharply increased after the 1973-74 jump in oil prices. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, unable to spend their petroprofits fast enough, began parking many surplus dollars in banks outside the U.S. Cartel members now have $74 billion in these Eurodollar deposits. Bankers also started lending large amounts of Euromarks and Euro-francs, which are West German marks and Swiss francs deposited outside their home countries...
...Establishment, Fast...
...drunk and tired, they said. But Conley was sick of his two-sport grind, and he admitted later that "religion saved me. I became a Seventh Day Adventist. I would have been a first-class drunk. I would have blown everything. I was going pretty fast for a lot of years. So I've kind of settled down, thank heaven...
...lady who lives just off of Prince St. But, as always, the mayor is thinking about something else. White's familiar figure struts up the street and what's left of his now-white hair glows in the cold sunshine. If he's not already there, the mayor is fast approaching mid-life crisis. If he's not mayor of Boston again, there's not much else that Kevin White wants to do. If Timilty has his neck on the line. White has his pride to lose this time--and probably some of his ego. And in his sometimes arrogant...
...These things never come in as fast as you would hope," City Clerk Paul Healy explained resignedly. Among the candidates that did file, incumbent Francis Duehay and challenger David Sullivan, who spent several nights last week canvassing Harvard dorms, led all fund raisers with more than $10,000 in contributions...