Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fouty cut into the breast and within about ten minutes had removed the lump. It proved to be 2 cm. in circumference-no bigger than the tip of a man's little finger. A technician rushed the lump to the pathology department, where it was fast-frozen with liquid nitrogen. A thin slice was cut, which a pathologist examined under a microscope. Within five minutes the message was relayed to Fouty: malignant cells. In a 2½-hour procedure, Fouty removed the entire right breast, its underlying pectoral muscle, and lymphoid tissue in the adjacent armpit. This tissue...
...Fast Friends. Few know the ins and outs of the Community's problems better than Giscard and Schmidt. The two men first got to know each other at EEC conferences where, as Finance Ministers for their respective governments, they mapped out monetary policies and trade negotiations. They not only became fast friends but agreed on the EEC's failings. Giscard, who detests the pomp and circumstance of Common Market summitry, has tried to set up more informal meetings; recently, he was host to the leaders of the Nine at a casual working dinner in the Elysee Palace...
...Arabs may have taken some of their lessons in greed from the Americans, who limited food production while much of the world went to bed hungry. Now that the price is right, we are willing to sell food to hungry people. The Arabs are learning fast...
...more severely, during his five-day stay at the Annenberg estate in Palm Springs early in September. At some point, Nixon's physicians say, a part of that clot, or possibly a new one, broke loose. The embolus was carried away in the bloodstream, like debris in a fast-flowing river, through the iliac vein and the inferior vena cava into the heart (see diagram...
...five years ago, the only burning issue related to co-education on campus is in the area of women's athletics. As has been the case here, women athletes have had to arrange their scheducles around those of men athletes. This has been changing, gradually, but not fast enough as far as many students are concerned...