Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ebbers took charge of the faltering business two years later. Then, as now, he saw acquisitions as the fast-track growth alternative to banging away against the giants for one account at a time. His strategy was to string together local carriers that sold long distance to business users, cutting overhead and paying for the acquisitions with his company's stock. His plan worked so well that anyone who invested $100 in WorldCom stock when the company went public in 1989 would today have a holding worth more than $3,000--by far the best showing in the telecom industry...
...name of research, the Toyota Camry hits 90 m.p.h. coming out of Great Falls on Interstate 15. Every other state in America puts a number on a sign to tell you exactly how fast you can go. Montana leaves you some leeway. You can drive whatever speed seems "reasonable and prudent" during daylight hours, depending on conditions...
...needle hits 95 now. Sure, it's a bit fast, but you've just parachuted in from a big East Coast city where you get tickets for parking in front of your own house, and this wide-open liberty is making you crazy. The Rockies spin out of the ground like the spurs of a boot, and a herd of antelope is grazing along a bend in the Missouri River. Willie Nelson and Ray Charles come on the radio to sing Seven Spanish Angels, and it seems prudent, if not reasonable, to nose...
These perfect fall days make me sad, and there have been so many of them lately in Minnesota. My cure for sadness is, first, to clean off my glasses and, second, to take a fast ride on a bicycle. If that doesn't work, I go to Murray's. The next step is to join the Men in Their 50s Coping with Melancholy group, and I've never had to do that...
...This week, the President visits Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, building the case for Congress to grant him powers to negotiate trade pacts without the shackles of pork-barrel politics: the so-called Fast Track. Where Reagan spooked Americans with tales of toppling dominoes, Clinton may rely on the specter of Mercosur. The trade association combining the booming economies of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay is fast emerging as an alternative to U.S.-dominated trade pacts, and has pledged to sign a free trade pact with the European Union...