Word: rapid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eros sees DeTik's role as essentially constructive. "My enemy is not the government," he says. "It is backwardness. The quality of our education and social services does not match the modern facades of our buildings. Our physical development is rapid, but our intellectual development is limited...
...particularly striking given the relative newness of the gay movement: it is hard to trace significant activity back much further than the 1950s, whereas the civil rights movements for blacks and women took shape in the 19th century and needed far longer to attain their basic goals. The rapid pace of change for gays owes much to the trails blazed by blacks and women, and the success of those groups gives gays hope that in a generation or so they will have attained full acceptance as just another piece fitting into the mosaic of national life...
...rapid growth of electronic networks only compounds the problem, for it allows anyone with a computer and a modem to distribute software silently and instantaneously. More than 90 countries around the world are already connected to the Internet, a global network that reaches an estimated 25 million computer users...
...after that, it was all smooth sailing until travelling to New Haven--the squad blanked Williams, Penn, Princeton, Dartmouth, Amherst and MIT in rapid succession...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III says thedeclining sense of faculty responsibility may bedue to the rapid turnover in the professorialranks...