Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zhao told a visiting Hungarian official last week that the "personnel changes will not affect our line and policies." Speaking with another visitor, Deng noted that "China needs further opening" to the outside world. The country's "mistakes," he added, "were due to demanding too much and moving too fast." That appeared to mean that Deng's reforms would continue, but at a slower pace...
Inspired by the meticulous regimen of fast-food outlets like McDonald's, Ackerly's Mini Maid operation offers a menu of 22 basic daily cleaning chores that its four-member crews will perform in an average time of 55 minutes for a fee of $39.50 to $49.50. The duties of the blue-and-white-clad cleaning squads -- primarily young mothers and homemakers -- range from washing kitchen floors to scouring porcelain to bed making. Says Ackerly: "We arrive with a smile, we have knowledge, we deliver what is asked of us, and we call back new clients the next...
Harvard knocked off the Red Raiders, 5-2, in Hamilton, N.Y., in early December. A Colgate victory on the fast ice of Bright February 13 isn't likely...
...even some supporters of a hike acknowledge that an increased minimum wage would still be disdained by large numbers of jobless young people, who are not inspired by the prospect of flipping hamburgers at a fast-food franchise. "These are dead-end jobs," says Lorna Barnes, an account executive at Chicago's Minority Economic Resources Corporation, which trains and places young people in jobs. Barnes contends that an aggressive job- education and retraining program would have far greater impact than a minimum- wage increase. That seems to be one idea on which left and right can agree: the Reagan Administration...
...Morning Program has more conventional features as well: celebrity interviews, daily health tips, movie reviews and short news inserts. But Hartley, babbling constantly, is inexcusably cheerful, and the whole enterprise pushes too fast and too hard: Hour Magazine on speed...