Word: abreast
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...world where information is suppressed, confused or conflicting. The nation cannot afford to be caught off guard by sudden hostilities in the festering arc of crisis or in the vast arenas of Asia where Communist giants collide. With weapons technology advancing more rapidly than ever, the U.S. must keep abreast of the latest Soviet developments, since an undetected Russian breakthrough could jeopardize the ever fragile balance of power. In a world of turmoil, frequently erupting in anarchy, the U.S. must be able to exercise its influence to maintain stability. Where the U.S. fails to do so, some authoritarian power...
...service station dealers then normally pass these wholesale increases on to their retail customers. The station owners commonly add 10? or more to the wholesale price in order to maintain their own margins. For many stations, these margins are not enough to keep abreast of inflation. Others can only offset a relatively small profit at the pump through their lucrative automobile service operations...
...poster campaign was the most dramatic expression of popular feeling in Peking since the death of Mao in 1976. In the largest single incident, 6,000 demonstrators, marching 30 abreast, paraded through the streets chanting slogans seldom heard in the People's Republic since the Communist takeover in 1949: "Long live democracy! We will never turn back!" Their destination was T'ien An Men Square, site of what had up to now been the most extraordinary political happening in China's recent past. In April 1976, throngs had congregated there to protest the removal of wreaths left...
...rival Sun hastened to keep, um, abreast. The day before the Star appeared, the Sun spread) its usual page 3 lovely across a centerfold and promised more to come. Next day the Sun put an unclad cupcake on page 1 (MY LOVE FOR SEX-CHANGE SAILOR, BY NUDE ROSIE) and, on the accustomed page 3, displayed not one but two topless twinkies...
Wojtyla is well aware of these tensions. For ten years he was a consultant to the Council for the Laity in Rome, and other visits to the Vatican and extensive reading have kept him abreast of wider church discussions. Monsignor Zdizislaw Pesz-kowsky, of the Polish-American seminary in Michigan, who has known Wojtyla for 24 years, says that while the new Pope is interested in the liberals' agenda?divorce, celibacy, women priests and the like?he "stresses that these problems must be dealt with by priestly zeal," not further compromise...