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...same time tape recorders were capturing every word of speeches, rapid communication introduced the possibility that a fatal "gaffe" could, in a matter of hours, be disseminated across the entire country. More recently, the 30-second TV commercial placed a high premium on packing as much emotional impact into as few words as possible--something few people are capable of doing extemporaneously...
According to City Councillor Edward N. Cyr, this rapid turnover over the past six months has compounded the inner-departmental friction which plagues Cambridge police...
Disappointment over the lack of rapid progress toward a collective-security system -- or for that matter toward any of Washington's Middle East policy goals -- is rooted in part in the unrealistically high hopes that were raised by the war's decisive outcome. Says Shireen Hunter, a Middle East expert at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The impression was created that we could write our own ticket, and that...
...Corp. in 1977 under a pioneering plan to hire women and minorities, Williams rose from saleswoman to division vice president in just 13 years. While Williams attributes her success mainly to hard work and business savvy, she acknowledges that her race and her sex played a role in her rapid rise. Affirmative action, she says, "opened the door, but it's not a free pass. If anything, you feel like you're under a microscope and have to constantly prove yourself by overachieving and never missing the mark...
...violence, however, rapid progress is still being made toward breaking down apartheid. The gradual easing of restrictions that began in 1982 has accelerated considerably since De Klerk took office in 1989. His government has done away with the segregation of facilities, such as public parks and government hospitals -- the last statutory vestiges of so-called petty apartheid -- lifted the ban on the African National Congress and freed many political prisoners, most prominently Nelson Mandela. Now De Klerk is about to pull down what are generally regarded as the last remaining legal pillars of apartheid: the laws that forbid blacks...