Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deadline, the utility qualified for $17 million to $28 million in 1978 tax investment credits, plus $20 million in depreciation deductions. It also got approval for a $49 million rate increase. "There was no question that there was strong incentive for the company to get that plant on line fast," contended David Barasch, an attorney for Pennsylvania's state Consumer Advocate office...
...supercritical" wing that cuts aerodynamic drag. Airbus has also benefited from a fundamental change in world aircraft-sales patterns. U.S. airlines, which not long ago accounted for two-thirds of all airliner purchases, now make up only one-half of the market. European and Third World lines are growing fast, and they seem more inclined to fly non-American jets than U.S. carriers do. The Airbus consortium aims to sell at least 25% of the 3,000 or so short-and medium-haul jets that will be needed by the early 1990s...
...startling to see how fast and with what authority the Guitar's lessons were absorbed by other artists in Paris, such as Henri Laurens and Archipenko. Laurens's Dish with Grapes (1916-18), with its majestic rotation of painted wood planes around the calm central core of the stemmed fruit dish, is surely one of the masterpieces of the 20th century, and all the fresher for being little known. Jacques Lipchitz's flat, frontal cubist sculptures, like Detachable Figure, Seated Musician (1915), are perhaps less impressive than this; yet they have about them a gaiety and precision...
...team could carve out anything more than a one-goal advantage for the last 41 minutes of the game, as the lead see-sawed back and forth. Both squads played exceptionally well, with the offenses clicking at both ends and the tenacious defenses forcing numerous turnovers and generating mercurial fast breaks...
Then came the fireworks. Predun found sharpshooter Mike Faught in the slot and Faught laid a perfect feed into the stick of Ward, who faked high and dropped the ball past Brown goalie Charlie Meister. Seven of the ten Harvard players were involved in the extraordinary fast-break...