Word: fasts
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Chile became the test case for opening the arms pipeline to Latin America. Chile's military, which takes a 10% cut of revenues from the country's copper exports, had the cash to buy 24 new jets. Washington had to act fast if it wanted to be among the eager foreign bidders, Chilean President Eduardo Frei warned Clinton during a February visit. The Chilean military wanted detailed specifications on the F-16 and F/A-18 by the end of March...
...horsepower to spare. From Oldsmobile there is the Intrigue, a new nameplate for an elegantly tailored four-door sedan that, its chief designer says, "looks like a car dressed in a Chanel suit." From Pontiac, there is a two-tone macho minivan for suburbanites who still lust for the fast lane. From Saturn, the EV1, a noiseless, all-aluminum electric vehicle. From Cadillac, Catera, GM's first Euro-American entry, designed to take on such young luxury imports as the BMW-3s and Lexus ES300...
...service, brainchild of ex-Wall Streeter Jeff Bezos, 33, is widely considered the hottest retail site in cyberspace. Few book lovers would forgo entirely the joys of browsing an actual bookstore, but Amazon offers considerable pleasures of its own. The site is so fast and responsive it almost feels alive; it's thrilling to have every title in the language at your fingertips, and reader-produced reviews add a layer of egalitarian interactivity. In the past year everyone from Business Week to the New Yorker has sung Amazon's praises. Bill Gates buys books there, and he doesn't even...
...earth, was that climate can change dramatically over short periods of time. Roughly 11,500 years ago, Greenland suddenly chilled, and then 1,500 years later, it suddenly warmed. The speed of the last change--an 18[degree] warming in some places in as little as three years--was fast enough, a meteorologist wryly commented, to capture the attention of politicians. To put a change of this magnitude in perspective, a mere 2[degree] drop in global temperatures during the 13th century started the "Little Ice Age" that wiped out the Vikings' Greenland colony, spurred glaciers to crush villages...
According to DiCenso, the attraction for students is the food. "It's good food, it's fast and it's cheap," said DiCenso. But students frequently come to socialize as well as to enjoy the cuisine, and at almost any hour until their closing time, 1:00 a.m. weeknights and 1:30 a.m. weekends, you can find students crowded around the small tables and relaxing. "After about 8 at night it's 98 percent students," said DiCenso. "We get a lot of the working people during...