Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should be rejoicing at this moment. I have wanted to be an adult for as long as I remember. However, now that I am one, things are not quite the way I expected them to be. I had images of an adulthood that was some cross between the fast-paced corporate life on L.A. Law and the steamy underworld of the soap operas. I would be successful. I would be passionate. There would never be a dull moment...
...graduate student characterized the atmosphere as one of "confused interest--no one really knew what had happened. I think it all happened too fast...
...Wisconsin State Fair had a welfare-caseload reduction contest, rural Marquette County (pop. about 13,000) would walk off with the blue ribbon. In a state that is fast shedding cases, Marquette's drop has been the steepest: down 91% in the past decade. And it's one of a handful of thinly populated counties that have got the number of "work-qualified" households on their welfare rolls down to a notable benchmark: zero...
What do you get when you combine the nation's largest fast-food chain with the hottest toy critters around? Lunchtime chaos, if kids and parents rush the Golden Arches the way they have stormed toy stores in search of Beanie Babies, the gotta-have-it-or-I'm going-to-hold-my-breath-until-I-turn-blue toy of the moment. Order a Happy Meal, and you'll get either Patti the Platypus or Pinky the Flamingo, the first two of a series of miniature Beanie Babies McD's is giving away. Get there soon. The cuddly Beanie Babies...
...Arizona Cardinals: Rae Carruth, WR, Colorado. He is very fast and has a breakaway burst. He drops a lot of balls, but the Cardinals need a deep threat...