Word: rapid
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...featured creatures this time are gigantic earthworms, 30 ft. long, capable of comic-alarming subterranean rapid transit (you just see this furrow moving across the desert at Road Runner speed). When they surface, they reveal trifurcated tongues, each extension ending in a funny-nasty suction cup. In other words, they are great special effects, informed by the mutant-monster tradition of '50s horror movies but satirizing that tradition in a delicate way -- neither condescending nor indulgent...
...This was an underfunded area of research where there was great potential for rapid advancement which can affect millions of people," David said...
...Milton Friedman, Nobel- prizewinning economist at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. "The U.S. economy is fundamentally very healthy, and there's no reason why the '90s shouldn't be just as good as the '80s, or better. There's no reason why we shouldn't have a decade of rapid growth and relatively low inflation...