Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into town, bringing an investment of $75 million and 8,200 new jobs. Great clusters of new brick apartments have risen from abandoned lots. The city's 14th century university has even started a new department: cinematography. "It's astounding that it could all have happened so fast," marvels local Development Boss Antonio Narro de Povar. "We're beginning to look like a little Madrid...
...Duty. Personalities and minor issues aside, the crucial debate in and around FDA centers on the question: How shall it discharge its duty to protect the public against useless or dangerous drugs? There can be no simple answer because the law, and therefore the duty, have changed almost as fast as drugs have changed...
...mess had been building for decades while the agency rocked along, a cozy bureau for career men whose ambitions were as limited as their powers. Though there have been marked improvements since World War II, what Gardner inherited was an agency that had lagged far behind its fast-growing responsibilities...
...Credit purchasing has been added to catalogues, and deliveries have been speeded up. Catalogue prices run 4% under those of retail stores because of savings in sales forces and advertising. Catalogue sales, as a result, now account for more than one-fourth of all sales volume and are growing fast...
...Perhaps, after many millions of years, they lost enough mass in this way to be classed as dwarfs. Morton's measurements, which involved ultraviolet light that does not penetrate the earth's atmosphere, make clear that some supergiants are actually spewing out large quantities of matter so fast that they are quickly becoming mere shadows of their former selves...