Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love a bargain as much as anybody else, and thanks to the decline of the dollar, the U.S. rather suddenly has become the world's major travel bargain. In consequence, the nation is finally getting a nice slice of international tourism, which is one of the biggest and fastest growing (up 18% last year, to $60 billion) items of global trade...
...unloaded at one distributor's warehouse, then channeled stealthily to selected candy and variety shops. Candy shops? Yes, the cargo was destined to feed the latest kid candy craze: Pop Rocks. Says the Brooklyn distributor: "The kids are like junkies-hungry for the stuff. It's the fastest-moving new candy I've ever seen...
...Opera House. The allure of Mikhail Baryshnikov's new Don Q certainly helped, and the presence of stars like Gelsey Kirkland in A.B.T.'s galaxy did no harm. But other U.S. dance companies are also enjoying a boom. Indeed by almost any measure, dance has become the fastest-growing of all the performing arts...
...compared with some 450 only five years ago. But the key to ballet's future is the growth of professional companies, which not only train new talent but also new teachers. There are now 55 such companies, v. 35 five years ago, and two of the fastest-growing new entries are in middle-sized cities...
Harvard's best race came in the steeplechase competition. Reed Eichner, although he was new to the event, boasted the fastest time, and Peter Fitzsimmons and Brian Finn followed suit, sweeping the race right before Brown began to fight back and pick up most of its wins...