Word: fasters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more to the point - Deng's reforms improved the life chances of more people, faster, than has ever been done before in the history of humankind. To be sure, you can still find poverty in China. Traveling deep in rural Guizhou province this fall, I saw damp villages where the homes were mean huts and families eked a living from rocky hillsides. But everyone had shoes, and nobody looked malnourished...
...After all, they, and we, have all been here before - not so long ago, in fact. The economy is teetering, on the brink of collapse, and if the House and Senate don't act right now a full-blown Depression looms and we'll all find ourselves on breadlines faster than you can say AIG - er, Citibank. I mean, General Motors...
...said he thinks that Subway will fare better. “There are some greasy-spoon diners and bar diners” nearby he said, but no simple sandwich shops in The Garage. “It’s not fast food, but it is faster than a sit down meal... I’m going to try to make friends with the people [who work] there and get some free subs.” Other restaurants in The Garage, though positive about Subway’s prospects, said they were not too concerned about it hurting their business...
...wife Svetlana (Victoria J. Benjamin ’12) decides not to wait idly in Russia while her husband embarks on an affair and instead pays a visit to the couple. Florence’s missing father vacillates between supposedly being alive and being presumed dead faster than you can say, “World Communist Conspiracy.” At one point, it is even implied that he may actually work...
Influenza is a disease of modernity: the faster people travel around the world, the easier it is for the virus to spread. There's no evidence of influenza among Native Americans until after Europeans visited North America. Pandemic outbreaks occur about once every hundred years, although it's hard track outbreaks that occurred before the 18th century due to incomplete medical records. The disease hits big cities first - because that's where people generally travel - and then spreads to surrounding areas. The last major pandemic occurred in 1918 when an Influenza A strain jumped from birds to humans and killed...