Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known by his first name -or, as adoring crowds chant it, "O-tell-u." His power base is COPCON, the 70,000-member military force that after the revolution assumed responsibility for public peace from the discredited Caetano police. His command of COPCON has made Saraiva de Carvalho the fastest rising star in Portugal. Still, he has his detractors. Spínola is reported to have once said that Saraiva de Carvalho "should never have got above sergeant." Many Portuguese regard him as a not-too-bright, womanizing playboy-hence his unflattering sobriquet "O tolo" (the brainless...
...consumer end of the food distribution system is becoming more diffuse and fragmented, partly because shoppers seem to want it that way. The fastest-growing phenomenon in food retailing today is not supermarkets but so-called convenience stores, small outlets catering to people who wish to shop at odd hours and do not mind doing so in odd places like gas stations. Sales at these minimarkets increased by more than 22% last year, despite high prices: their pretax profits, as a percentage of sales, average 4.8%, v. a bare 1.1% in supermarkets, which depend on high volume, not high markups...
...rate, and officials predict that out-processing will be virtually completed by Oct. 1. This is in part because of Eglin's small size but also because it has had very good relations with nearby communities. Surprisingly, the camp's many semiliterate fishermen have been among the fastest to find jobs. Says James Chandler, a State Department liaison officer at Eglin: "I thought the fishermen would be the hardest group to place, but there is a demand for them all the way from Florida to Texas." Last week 25 fishermen and their families flew to Port Isabel, Texas...
...Wasn't he the fastest gun in the West...
...Exxon now that governments in the Middle East and Latin America are squeezing the profits out of petroleum production. Garvin was marked as a comer at Exxon in the early 1960s. In 1965 he took over the company's chemical operations and helped turn them into the fastest-growing part of Exxon's business...