Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasingly fast-paced society that has forced us down such a primrose path...
...more important, a noninflationary 0.6% rise in labor costs in the first quarter. The news sent the Dow surging 179 points, its second best daily performance ever. A day later, investors applied the brakes on hearing that the economy grew an astounding 5.6% in the first quarter--too fast for comfort. But a closer look at the numbers showed inflation remained dormant. Don't put away the Dramamine just yet. The markets were jolted again on Friday after the jobless rate sank to a near 24-year low of 4.9%. Very inflationary. Later in the day, however, Washington's announcement...
...what's this about no news? In the second week, which is where I am, Weil says to try "a one-day news fast." What, no reading, watching or listening to the misery that makes the world go round? It gets worse each week, building to a seven-day fast in Week Eight. He couldn't mean sports news too, could he? Not when it's basketball-playoff time. Can I watch the games and just skip the halftime blather...
...seems like an effort to compensate for the fact their star isn't, say, Daniel Day-Lewis, the creators of The Odyssey limn an even more brooding, contemplative hero than exists in Homer's epic. The original Odysseus is a heavyweight to be sure, but he is also a fast-talking, spirited wheeler-dealer, famous for his cunning. The creators might have had fun with that aspect of his character. Instead, they have conjured up a guy who seems to be on a very long journey to find his missing Prozac, even when he is rolling around in the sand...
...Talk about RUNNING nowhere fast. Men who consistently jog 40 miles or more a week still put on pounds as they age--about 3.3 lbs. per decade, plus about 3/4 of an inch on their waistlines. How to avert the girth? Tack on more and more miles each year...