Word: franticness
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...talent hunt is most frantic at the top. The demand for executives making $200,000 or more surged 86% last year, according to the Association of Executive Search Consultants. The trade group also found a 37% jump in assignments to find managers for slots paying from $100,000 to $200,000. Last month a Korn/Ferry survey of 750 major employers across the U.S. showed an estimated 50% first-quarter increase in the hiring of executives earning more than...
...move they did, quickly enough to have half a boatlength lead by the relatively, and only relatively, calmer water of the second thousand. There, the Crimson--despite a crosswind and a somewhat frantic 37 strokes per-minute cadence--sealed the victory by holding off a Midshipman sprint with 300 meters to go to claim a five-second victory...
Once Harvard settled into a comfortable racing pace of 36 strokes per minute at the halfway point--down from a frantic 38 during the first 800 meters--it proved unstoppable...
...experience with permissiveness, many Americans have become acutely aware that there is a worm in the apple of sexual liberation. That a community with a reputation for liberalism should decide that things have gone too far is not really news. The call for a pause in the frantic assault on the limits of decency (beyond which lies the terra cognita of what used to be taboos) is the quite natural expression of a profound disappointment with the reality, as opposed to the promise, of unrestricted freedom. There are pushes and pulls in the life of the national superego...
...show he's shocked, shouts to show he's angry. He fails to convey Tyrone's appealing undercurrent of charm, or any of his amusing qualities. When he pontificates to Edmund about wasting electricity, only permitting one absurd bulb to be lit, Walker seems so serious, so genuinely frantic, the underlying humor does not come through...