Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this technology, which is expanding at a rapid pace, such a prime political feeding ground? The main reason is that the Internet is vastly overrated by those who know nothing about it. The Internet seems futuristic--it comes with trendy catch-phrases such as "information superhighway" and "cyberspace." We listen in awe and wonder as CEOs explain to us, in layman's terms, the importance of "networking" and "global resources." With the Internet, they tell us, we can do everything conceivable with the stroke of a few keys. It will make our lives easier. How? Don't know. It just...
...Nemtsov, who became a First Deputy Prime Minister. Nemtsov, the former mayor of Nizhni Novgorod, is one of Yeltsin's favorites, and he will probably reappear in a senior post in the next Cabinet. The combination of Kiriyenko and Nemtsov might provide a small boost for reform, the lagging pace of which Yeltsin has been insisting was the main reason for the mass firing. American energy officials who knew Kiriyenko during his brief seven months as Fuel and Energy Minister say he is a bright, able technocrat who is easy to work with...
...same time, governments in general are having increasing trouble keeping up with the bracing new global competition and the pace of technological change. The traditional boundaries of the nation-state are being eroded by the lowering of trade barriers, the increase in foreign investment and the rapid integration of capital markets that is being driven by computers and cheap communications. Governments simply have less say over what happens in their domestic economies. In our new book, The Commanding Heights, we call this shift globality, the next step beyond globalization. It describes the high-velocity interconnected world economy in which...
...keep up with the dizzying pace of Internet growth? Neither can your search engine. A new study from the NEC research institute says Excite, HotBot, Infoseek et al are barely able to cover one-third of the 320 million web pages estimated to be out there. ?The engines index only a fraction of the total number of documents on the Web,? wrote researchers Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles in the journal Science. ?The coverage of any one engine is significantly limited...
...Four men want to cross a narrow bridge at night, but they only have one flashlight. Only two people can cross at once, and since it is dark, one of them must have the light. When people walk together they must walk at the pace of the slower person. Each man walks at the following pace...