Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chang's playing, too, is anything but youthful. She plays aggressively, with a throaty sound, and caps off her notes with a fast, urgent vibrato. She is unafraid of digging into challenging runs or over-playing. Chang's tone, like Audrey Hepburn's character in Breakfast at Tiffany's, has the mean reds...
...This is all pretty fast," said Skocpol. "[Some of the proposals] will be implemented in due course. I just don't know when due course...
...checkers at Annenberg are known for their vigilance, but Gerolimatos even leaves her post sometimes when she wants to grab lunch herself. "When I let the students check their own card, they swipe it too fast," she complains, "and my computer starts to go a little crazy." Gerolimatos cheerfully greets each individual student, without having to cheat and peek at the names on the card. Unfortunately, few checkers have adopted this level of enthusiasm...
NUCLEAR Before the war, Saddam had been pressing ahead fast at 10 sites, and some analysts believe he was within months of acquiring at least a rudimentary atom bomb. The inspectors believe they have dismantled the program, but some of its weapons components and equipment have never been recovered. The secret overseas purchasing operation Saddam set up before the war is still functioning, and it could be put to work to buy and import nuclear technology...
...federal grand jury investigation to have a major impact on the Democratic Party. "This basically gives the election to Hoffa," he says. "And with Carey's fall, his coalition with (AFL-CIO head) John Sweeney, which was so lucrative for pro-labor Democrats (and so successful in dragging down fast-track), is basically finished. As for Hoffa, so far he's playing it very close to the vest." Somewhere, Dick Gephardt is sweating...