Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food reflects the culture," says Susana Desola, an anthropology major from El Salvador. "Like the American people," she says, "everything is very fast-moving, mobile' and carelessly thrown together...
...refs case the various colleges' offensive patterns so they know what to look for in the constant bump and grind that can flare into fisticuffs unless kept under control. "It's a new game every night," Hannon says. "I know the teams that run the fast break and know that I have to get down the court." He points out that there are many teams that press and zone-press right off the bat, forcing officials to monitor swarming action at both ends of the court...
...north are home to an enduring separatist movement. Similar regional discontent is brewing in Catalonia, where demonstrations last month paralyzed Barcelona on two successive Sundays and hastened the King's planned visit to the area. Apart from regional dissidents, who complain that Juan Carlos is not reforming Spain fast enough, there is mounting pressure on the King from diehard right-wingers who protest that he is moving too fast. The King himself seems to prefer moderate gestures: last week, on the very day of the fatal confrontation in Vitoria, his government had sent a bill to the Cortes that...
Temple, Texas, is another fast-growing community. Sixty plants have opened in the area, in part because the city (pop. 41,500) lies at the hub of a wheel with spokes extending to Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Some of the residents there feel as if they are part of a migration within a migration. "My wife would slit her throat if we had to move back to Houston," says Gene Bishoff, manager of the 700,000-sq.-ft. Western Auto Supply distribution center. At first she did not want to leave Houston, where they had lived...
...remains Pinto-sized by comparison, with sales of $1.2 billion in 1975, but output of its fast, sporty cars soared to 217,458, from 184,681 the year before. Like Daimler-Benz, BMW did not have to lay off a single worker during the recession and remained profitable, making $16.2 million in 1974. Even little Porsche, which sells a mere 180 cars a week (price range: $9,120 to $26,600), is confident enough to have embarked on a $55 million expansion program...