Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When flashed, Duehay's credentials lean heavily towards the liberal end of the council. A leader in the fight to maintain what he calls the "livability" of Cambridge neighborhoods (downzoning, anti-fast food, controlled development) Duehay has also been in the forefront of city fiscal management, playing a key role in keeping the Cambridge budget trim. And of all the councilors, Duehay has been the first and most active in making sure that Harvard doesn't receive more than its fair share of the city's benefits...
...despite the frenzy of both the performers and the audience, the show retained its tightness and musical virtuousity. The numbers were delivered in fast sequence. The harmony was close and rhythm exact, the sound was solid and pure, and the show was unencumbered by excesses of lightsmanship. The first half of the concert was mostly composed of tunes from Jimmy Cliff's two albums, The Harder They Come and Unlimited. While the second half ran through his just-released album, Follow My Mind. For its first encore the band played Under the Sun, Moon and Stars, and the concert ended...
...Williams forwards were very fast and beat the Crimson fullbacks, but Herold was a formidable last line of defense...
Crout explains that after enactment of the tough Sullivan law in New York in 1911, murders increased by 18 per cent the following year and burglaries increased so fast that insurance companies petitioned the legislature to repeal the law. Today, he says, New York City prohibits handguns almost entirely and has the second highest murder rate of cities over a million, along with 21 per cent of all robberies committed in the United States...
...Management of the People's Economy, were honored for developing "linear programming" or "activity analysis," techniques that are part of the computerization of the "dismal science." They enable capitalists and commissars alike to make the most efficient use of workers, machines and raw materials, and to determine how fast production should grow...