Word: abreast
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...does not get around to the news until the sun slides over the Waianae Range, it has a comfortable, growing circulation lead over the morning Advertiser-103,180 to 59,679. The Advertiser's banner red headlines and high feature count are not likely to pull it abreast of the paper that carries 50% more columns of news each day, keeps 69 men in the newsroom (to the Advertiser's 39), has a larger correspondent network, with staffers in all the outer Hawaiian islands and stringers in Tahiti, Samoa, the Cook Islands and the U.S. Some...
...best among the growth companies are convinced that older growth industries lost out because they did not keep abreast of-or sufficiently ahead of-the needs and desires of industry, Government and the consumer. To keep ahead, the growth companies are spending large amounts on research (an average 6%-9% for the electronics industry v. 3% for all industry...
Candles & Lanterns. Next day, the leftists filled Tokyo's streets with 150,000 demonstrators. Carrying candlelit lanterns and marching 30 abreast, the column streamed from the Diet building to the U.S. embassy. With 8,000 police looking on, they stopped a bus bearing 20 of Kishi's Liberal Democrats, poked sticks through the windows, dragged out three of the legislators and roughed them up. Some 4,000 students laid siege to Pre mier Kishi's suburban home to prevent his leaving to keep an appointment with Jim Hagerty - an appointment Kishi denied having...
...legislature on the strength of the Chessman case (TIME, March 21). With that slapped down and well behind him, Pat Brown set about selling his record by pen, handshake and after-dinner speech. And he could tick off some notable legislative achievements designed to keep king-size California abreast of the times. Items...
...conceding that she is 28, Anita admitted to an admiring judge-and packed courtroom-that she had bowled over a few of the boys. But she staunchly denied that a popped button on her blouse had triggered the stampede. Purred Anita: she had all her buttons and only ran abreast of the crowd because "some people tried to poke their hands through the car window-for what purpose, I don't know...