Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...typical bus driver does not. But in between, much depends on individual circumstances. It's no stretch to interpret $100,000 as a lot of money for a childless couple in Louisville, Ky., where life is good and the cost of living is low. But that same money disappears fast for a two-earner family in a high-cost city like New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, with three children approaching college age and parents who may need financial help. Yet the new tax bill arbitrarily sets that level as the threshold for wealth. Provisions for education and child...
...retool her very identity. McKenna admits that after walking out on corporate life, "I felt like a nonperson." Though she'd left to pursue a career in writing, peers assumed she'd gone home to be a mommy--a common misperception about women who step off the conventional fast track. "The immediate defense is to devalue your intentions and actions," McKenna argues, because "rejecting what society values as the moral right path of success...[is] rebellious, treasonous...
...into irreversible overdrive. The alcoholic son of a Northern California land baron, Nelson wants to leave his wife Winona but cannot without impoverishing himself. His tyrannical (and Roman Catholic) father has given Winona title to the house and property as a means of discouraging divorce. But Nelson needs money fast; he chickened out of a cocaine-smuggling scheme in the Rome airport, and now owes an irate druglord back home nearly $100,000. Two men in a camper have already arrived in Mendocino County, inquiring after Nelson's whereabouts. The marijuana plants that he and his partner, Clarence Meadows...
...YORK: Better back up your hard drive. Two hacker conferences are convening in New York and Amersterdam this weekend. The gatherings are expected to draw 2,000 fast-fingered geeks and wanna-bes who will keep tabs on each other across the Atlantic via the Net. It's all in good fun, say conference organizers, creating an environment for the all-night keyboard jockeys to exchange tips. Nothing naughty, of course. Yeah, right...
...conclusion: the teenage troublemakers of the past few years are fast growing up. And youngers, apparently, are not taking up the torch. Which must be reassuring to the boomers, who would love to see drugs back where they remember them: back in college...