Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that doesn't impress you, she also runs the fastest 400, 200 and 55 meters any woman has ever run at Harvard...
Wholesale prices shot up at their fastest pace in nearly three years last month, the government said yesterday in a report that analysts warned could signal spiraling inflation...
...example is Britain, with its rigid class structure, its powerful unions, its state-owned industrial dinosaurs, its enormous governmental bureaucracy. Its precipitous postwar decline took place precisely as it was shedding its empire. Thatcher engineered Britain's dramatic renewal in the 1980s, when it had one of the fastest growth rates in Europe, by going after not defense spending but the sclerosis that had set into the system: authoritarian unions, failing state-owned industries, a paternalistic bureaucracy and, by example and rhetoric, the British class system itself...
Critics like Ralph Nader point out that congressional expenses are one of the fastest-growing areas in the federal budget. "Congressional pay is 48% higher than it was in 1980, and now they say they deserve more," charges the consumer advocate. "Our power elite wants to be an economic elite as well." In a report last year, Nader noted that in 1988 Congress spent $1.97 billion just to keep itself going, $220 million more than the previous year...
...because the Reagan Administration has refused to raise taxes or keep the lid on spending for non-means-tested entitlements, such as Social Security, which are geared towards immediate consumption rather than use in savings and investment. As a result, interest payments on the national debt have become the fastest growing line item in the federal budget, not defense spending...