Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are, of course, less passionate participants in the debate: farmers and lawmakers who agree that agriculture should be weaned from dependence on Government but fear that the Reagan Administration is trying to move too fast at the worst possible time. Jack Stone, president of the California-based Western Cotton Growers Association, comments ruefully, "Over the years, our farmers have been for more world-competitive, market-oriented programs. Now that we may be forced into them, it's scaring...
...agricultural land had been bid so high that many farms could no longer earn enough from crop sales, even at Government-supported prices, to repay the loans. Land values began to tumble, making the loans secured by the land look shakier still. Interest rates fell, but not as fast as prices; rates remained high enough to increase the burden on farmers...
Shayne Kukulowicz scored the winning goal 24 seconds into overtime of a fast-paced, hard-hitting game, but the contest was marred by an incident that occurred immediately afterwards. Cornell goalie Darken Eliot was hit in the back of the neck by a beer can. He was not seriously injured...
...this reason, the film has a fast paced punch that the book lacked. Winston runs--not slogs--from low-level Party member to fledgling revolutionary to haggard forture victim. The scenery, too, especially the crowd shots of Hate Week and mass gatherings at the execution of war criminals, helps fuel the romantic pace of the film and sweeps the viewer along with Winston...
...rarely to satisfy his own curiosity. Maybe it's wishful thinking, but one would think that someone with the title of Dean of the College would want to make his presence known as a receptive individual and one willing to take student concerns into account before making hard and fast policy. Without question, Fox has moved closer to that ideal in the two years since the council has been around. But in general, people who know him say John Fox engenders a sense of suspicion more than assurance, making him someone hard to approach and his office one unreasonably detached...