Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which would charge tuition, raise educational standards and close overlapping facilities. In addition to a free education, less affluent students who belong to SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) receive a stipend averaging $30 a week. The state education department recently complained that SEEK students were not learning fast enough and were taking dubious courses, such as Caribbean religion and education and the Third World. Says Savas: "This is a very expensive way of achieving remedial education...
...ineptitude: raiding the cash registers, he tries to burn the receipts in a compulsive fit and causes a wastebasket fire that attracts passerbys. "I'm a Catholic, I don't want to hurt anybody, ya understand?" he screams in a panic, upsetting a potted fern. Instead of getting out fast, he dawdles so long that he's soon surrounded by police...
There's no doubt that default is imminent. The market for new city and state bonds, despite their high returns, is drying up fast, while old notes are continually coming due. And there is little doubt that default will have disastrous consequences outside New York: the city is too important financially and the economy already too shaky for default not to have a significant impact. City and local bonds everywhere are already facing higher interest rates, partly because of New York's condition. Should the city default, municipalities will have a hard time finding any investors at all. The chairman...
...search of the knockout punch. But he never found it. In Round 4, the second battle began. Frazier, having weathered his customary slow start, set to work, pounding lefts to the chin through Ali's gloves. He bothered Ali on the ropes with more uppercuts, body punches and fast, punishing combinations. No matter that Ah fired back with flicking jabs, speed-of-light combinations, straight rights and lefts-he could not wear Frazier down. The challenger kept moving with his jolting left hook; in the tenth round, Ali's legs wobbled after a fast-moving Frazier left caught...
Meanwhile, as Scott battled with Kohn and Weir, Rolling Stone was not exactly suffering. The magazine enjoyed its richest publicity harvest since it sprang full-blown from the brow of Wenner in 1967, and an extra printing of 125,000 copies of the Hearst issue was selling fast...