Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...total cash value of $300. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the system is its funding, which does not, as one might expect, come out of tithes. Rather, once a month, church members are asked to go without two meals and contribute their value to the welfare system. The fast money is maintained and administered locally, so that each community can care for its own disadvantaged members...
...estate's relative puniness. "Elvis," she notes with an ex-wife's hard-won lucidity, "did not plan for the future. When he needed money, he would just call [manager] Colonel [Tom] Parker up and say, 'Get me a tour,' and he would spend the money just as fast as he got booked...
...directors got composers to cavort onscreen. Some look embarrassed--check out Richard Rodgers' stiff delivery and Lorenz Hart's plaid jammies in Makers of Melody--while others are to the camera born. In the 1934 Hollywood Rhythm, tubby lyricist Mack Gordon (Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?) is fast with a quip and light on his feet; doing a Latin dance, he irrepressibly shouts, "I got rumbatism...
Hanson said his idea for the conference grew out of his perception that the pace of the settlement negotiations was "incredibly fast" and primarily behind closed doors...
...housing settlement. Which is why nearly every major player in the process was furious at Jerusalem mayor Ehud Olmert's decision to award a building permit for an Arab neighborhood to Miami millionaire Irving Moscowitz without letting any of them in on it. "Those two tried to pull a fast one," says TIME's Lisa Beyer in Jerusalem. "Moscowitz and Olmert are both intent on this for ideological reasons, and they don't feel they need anyone's permission." Benjamin Netanyahu, who has had his share of trouble with the settlement issue, exploded over the ambush and broke...