Word: outruns
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...concluded therefore that new problems of urbanization like housing and development ought to be chiefly the responsibility of state governments. "The problems have outrun individual local government boundaries . . . and the national government is too remote to sense and to act" on them. As in Wednesday's lecture Rockefeller kept his comments scrupulously clean of references to the Kennedy Administration, or to the President's proposed Department of Urban affairs...
...East's best runners, Laris collapsed 50 yards from the finish line in a meet last week. But Laris has been training this week and may have a good chance to outrun the varsity big three-Ed Hamlin, Mark Mullin, and Ed Meehan...
...impressed an M-G-M scout, who was hunting young talent for Writer-Director Joe Pasternak and Where the Boys Are. Paula flew west - "and there," she recalls, "was itty-bitty Pasternak. The first thing he said was 'Take something off.' I said: 'Listen, I can outrun you.'" She will...
...sorts of girls. He declares that he had his first sexual experience at 2 and his first affair at nine with his governess ("I thought I was abnormally precocious until I read Kinsey"). By 17, in the words of a conservatory friend, he was a "sexual democrat." Once, having outrun his credit at a brothel, he paid off his debt by entertaining at the madam's piano...
...fact, computer progress has outrun man's ability to prepare magnetic-tape instructions complex enough to keep the brains busy. The ideal computer would be one that operators can instruct verbally. Bell plans to build one able to hear and obey some 50 words...