Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dorfman (who made millions from his insurance monopoly with the Teamsters, then helped loot the pension funds), Jackie Presser (Cleveland Teamster boss, jockeying to succeed Fitzsimmons), Harold Gibbons (progressive St. Louis Teamster leader, who Brill says could have turned the union around if he hadn't sold out to fast cars and women), and two pseudonymous rank'n'filers...
...people in 1977--forces that small hadn't produced such energetic and memorable music in ages. The follow-up only a few months later, This Year's Model, landed on the public almost too soon--it was hard to believe one man could write that many great songs so fast, and record them so well. This Year's Model added an organ to Costello's instrumental mix, but kept the clean, direct sound that delivered his catchy hooks so well. It remains his best album; every song is classic rock and roll in a style critics had given up years...
Economists argue that private colleges are as affordable as ever, since aftertax income has risen as fast as tuition, or faster. Yet by that reckoning, public colleges are a bigger bargain than ever, since the gap between public and private student tuition has grown from $416 yearly in 1956 to more than $2,000 today. The four-year premium for a private B.A., a sum approaching $8,000, is large indeed...
...OECD concedes that some European economic blemishes remain. Its steel, shipbuilding and textile industries continue in distress. Unemployment stands to stay at a high 5¼% because the work force is increasing as fast as new jobs are being created. Consumer prices, the OECD report says, should rise 7% this year for the Continent as a whole, ranging from less than 3% in West Germany to nearly 11% in Italy...
Losing to Northeastern in track is fast becoming a Harvard tradition about as welcomed as taking finals after Christmas vacation...