Word: abreast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their efficiency. America was Japan's mentor or teacher. But of late the student has been showing signs of excelling the teacher, and the teacher might be getting a little jealous of the student's achievements. The student hopes the teacher will progress further and keep abreast or stay ahead of the student. The student in the meantime is rapidly depleting his energy and weakening his footing. The U.S. has been a very good teacher to Japan, and the student does not want to fight the teacher. Instead, the student hopes that the two most important nations...
...nothing but our unexpected closeup view had really set it off from any of the myriad other attempts to bring order out of the region's chaos. Since that closeup so abruptly ended, Namibian politics have seemed a bit remoter even to my family, and we no longer keep abreast day-to-day of who is assassinating whom and whose dreams have been the latest...
...soon as he took office, Shultz set about refashioning U.S. policy in the Middle East. He and aides worked hard and quietly; at night their working papers were locked in Shultz's office safe to prevent leaks to the press. The Secretary made sure that Reagan was kept abreast: three times he took his ad hoc policy review group to the White House to explain the salient details of Middle Eastern geopolitics. Reagan, who is instinctively pro-Israeli, was gradually persuaded to adopt a policy that was more even-handed toward the Palestinians...
...police soon sealed off all of downtown Moscow. The tight security allowed mourners to move three abreast through unimpeded streets. The capital's huge avenues were guarded by long ranks of militiamen in their metal-color greatcoats with blue shoulder boards. Soldiers wearing black-edged red armbands stood at attention outside the House of Trade Unions, whose light-green-and-white facade had been freshly painted for the occasion. Red flags and streamers bordered in black hung limply on the building...
...billion-plus total comes to nearly one-quarter of the human race. If all Chinese stood in rows four abreast, 6 ft. apart, and marched through Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace at a steady pace of 3 m.p.h., it would take more than ten years for them to pass. Though Peking's tough birth-control measures have cut population growth from 2.1% a year in 1964 to 1.4% a year now, a baby is born every two seconds...