Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Bush had little time to ruminate about the forces of history and the balance of power in Asia during his journey last week. The pace was too fast, the ratio of ceremony to substance too high, and there was too much fretting over the Tower debacle back home...
...howling wind cascaded through the cabin so fast that one woman's earrings were pulled from her ears. Oxygen masks popped free (some people later complained that several oxygen compartments failed to open). "It was a nightmare," said passenger Dalenya Poliszcuk. A shower of ice cubes from the beverage carts and all sorts of personal possessions filled the air. "There were shoes blown back from the front of the plane," reported passenger Andrew Gannon. "A stewardess went flying, and another one tried to calm everybody down...
...finest-grain color film ever made, Ektar enables photographers to enlarge pictures to poster size with almost no loss of clarity. The film is recommended for use only with a single-lens reflex camera, as Ektar is currently available in just two speeds: very slow (ISO 25) and very fast (ISO 1000). Clarity will not come cheap: Ektar 25 is expected to cost about $6 for a 24-exposure roll, compared with $4 for Kodak's most popular film, Kodacolor Gold...
...primary U.S. inflation signal flared brightly last week. Propelled largely by the fast-rising cost of food and gasoline, the Consumer Price Index increased 0.6% in January, which would amount to a worrisome 7.2% if it were to continue through the year. That marked the strongest monthly inflationary surge since January 1987, when prices jumped 0.7%. But the rate then slowed to a modest...
...outside experts agree that with the rising costs of higher education, university investors are looking for fast, highly profitable ways of boosting their endowments...