Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter is learning fast. He has begun asking Senators to recommend 20 influential citizens from each state to receive flattering invitations to the White House for chats with him and senior officials about the canal treaty. Last week Carter had a group of Republican legislators over for breakfast in one of the spiffier state dining rooms, and surprised them with effusive thanks for their help in overcoming Democratic opposition to a number of White House proposals...
Warns Brookings Institution Economist John Palmer: "It's incredible that Congress would be moving so fast to replace one retirement system with a new one it knows so little about...
...workers to pick their own date of retirement, provided they are doing a satisfactory job. "We don't make generalized assumptions about age and its effect on productivity," says Susan Stone, director of communications. "We try to focus on the employee and his manager rather than set hard and fast rules. It's a pay-for-performance situation. We have people over 65 doing a heck of a job, no matter where we put them." Texas Refinery, a petroleum-products manufacturer in Fort Worth, prefers to hire older people. Says Bob Phillips, assistant personnel director: "We couldn't operate...
...Stairways made of wood are going to burn up very fast, and if there were a fire in one of the dorms with an outside fire escape, you'd lose more people by falling through the fire escapes than you would from the fire," Kate M. Elliot '81, a resident of Greenough said yesterday...
...slippery field and a tough, fast UConn team combined to hand the Harvard women's field hockey team its first defeat of the season, 1-0, Saturday afternoon in Storrs...