Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest employer to test all personnel is the U.S. military. Alarmed by rampant drug use among men and women in uniform, the Pentagon began widespread random testing in 1982, starting with the Army. At first, the program was developed so fast and handled so sloppily that it gave drug testing a bad name. Hundreds of soldiers claimed that they were falsely accused of being drug users because of inaccurate results...
...down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple of packets of cocaine to finance a renovation; he calls the place Powders. Omar hires Johnny as his assistant, and the two fall into a tense, delicate master- slave tryst. In commerce and pleasure, Omar is a fast learner. How could he not be, with Uncle to teach him? "I'm a professional businessman, not a professional Pakistani," Uncle shrugs as he evicts a poet from his squat. "And there's no such thing as race in the new enterprise culture...
...Anglo-India, a new kind of movie: fast, bold, harsh and primitive, like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat. My Beautiful Laundrette has no echo of eulogy in its street wit, no time for nuances of character in its rush to spray-paint a teeming social fresco. Hanif Kureishi, 29, the film's author, says he originally planned a three- or four- hour work with a Godfather sprawl, but settled for 93 minutes and (pounds) 600,000 from Britain's Channel 4. The pinch shows, and so does the pluck. Kureishi's story shifts moods...
...Administration seemed embarrassed at having provided U.S. cargo planes for Marcos' cash-and-carry exit. "Looking back, it was a stupid thing," said a Justice Department official. "But everything moved so fast." Indeed, in the confusion at Clark Air Base, north of Manila, where Marcos stopped before traveling to Guam and then to Hawaii, U.S. military personnel loaded the President's possessions after only a cursory inspection. Marcos claimed last week that he had originally intended to fly from Clark to his home province of Ilocos Norte. Only when the Aquino government refused to let him stay in the Philippines...
...cigarette smoke. Simpson and other scientists interpreted the spike as a burst of dust and gas erupting from the surface of the nucleus. Other Vega instruments seemed to show that the icy cometary surface was being evaporated by solar radiation at a rate two to three times as fast as scientists had predicted...