Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem, as outlined in a classified report from the Defense Intelligence Agency, is the possible development of a new Soviet weapon--the "fast-burn" rocket. According to the report, such a device could speed into orbit and shut down its engines before the heat-seeking sensors of SDI satellites could home in on its jetstream. The report predicts that the Soviets could "develop, produce and deploy" fast-burning rockets as early...
Teammate Joe Dowling describes Jernigan as an "athlete who has found his sport." Dowling compares Jernigan to a "ball machine on super-fast...
CORPORATIONS CALL IT "top-down" decision-making. It's fast, it's efficient and it gets the job done. At Harvard, people like President Derek C. Bok and Vice President Daniel Steiner '54 are in the driver's seat. They know the most and are therefore most qualified to make the important decisions, right...
While none of the airline's 60 creditors want to see the company go under, each is demanding results, and fast. In 1985 Eastern eked out a tiny $6.3 million profit on revenues of $4.8 billion, but during the final three months of the year the carrier lost $67 million. Says Louis Marckesano, an airline- industry expert at the Philadelphia-based investment firm of Janney Montgomery Scott: "The banks are not playing games. They want more reassurance from Eastern, and they want a game plan that shows how the company will make money...
...Reading Game first plunged into multi-outlet tutoring in 1970, beginning with eleven centers in California and expanding to 70 in six states. The company has served a principal diet of reading for kindergarten through twelfth grade, both remedial for slow learners and enrichment for fast-track youngsters. Its fee: $20-$25 an hour...