Word: fastest
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...which means that Asian-American representation in the hallways of power has gone from barely noticeable to modestly influential. Despite being the fastest-growing, best-educated and most affluent minority group in America, Asians have traditionally been somewhat diffident when it comes to politics. Nearly two-thirds of Asians in the U.S. are immigrants, many from countries with checkered democratic traditions; most push their kids to become doctors and engineers, not lawmakers. Many saw the 1996 campaign-finance scandal as a Yellow Peril witch-hunt. One Indian aspirant for a House seat in Indiana, R. Nag Nagarajan, lost...
...time brought femininity to our sport. She showed by example that when you look great, you feel great--and when you feel great, you perform great. Florence brought to track a unique flair, style and grace, and added to them gold medals and world records. She was unquestionably the fastest woman in the world...
...Crimson Cash is absolutely the fastest transaction on campus. The difference is astonishing at The Coop. It's as if we've cloned Domna [the checker at Annenberg Hall] and put her everywhere," Cuppett said...
Indeed, Fieger might be Michigan's fastest-rising Democrat, but he sometimes sounds more like "shock jock" Howard Stern. From disarming candor ("Sure, I smoked marijuana. And I inhaled. I'm not a liar like Clinton") to mean-spirited jabs (his favorite: Engler is the "product of miscegenation between barnyard animals and humans"), Fieger has spent his career making waves and lambasting virtually anyone who disagrees with him. "He's too quick. He's too unscrupulous, and he's too feisty," sniffs University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar, an expert on assisted suicide who has endured more than...
...fastest-growing part of distance learning is in continuing or executive education," says Brandon Hall, author of Web-Based Training Cookbook (John Wiley & Sons; $39.99), published last year. "Busy professionals trying to manage their work and personal lives can log on to a class late at night or early in the morning, or whenever is best for their schedule. And they're learning only what they really need to know to improve performance on their current job or maybe in preparation for that next...