Word: rapid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hacker culture generates its own rewards; success, such as rapid career advancement, is not that important. At 26, Jim McQuade is growing into hacker middle age. He has attended C.M.U. intermittently since 1974, with time off to do freelance computing for two firms. At one point he even considered becoming a drama major. Now a first-semester senior, McQuade uses his terminal for completing papers and assignments, for doing work as a Robotics Institute researcher, and for hacking programs on the side. Says he: "I'm not in any hurry to graduate...
...François-Poncet offered several explanations. First, Soviet adventurism in the Third World turned out to be costly and disappointing. Second, Western Europe had become an attractive target because it could be intimidated by a rapid Soviet military buildup, especially of SS-20 intermediate-range missiles, of which Moscow now has 351 deployed. Intimidation was made all the easier by the arrival of a so-called successor generation ol young West Europeans ignorant of immediate post-World War II history, thus uncertain of U.S. policy and fatalistic about Soviet power. Third, the Soviets are grappling in Eastern Europe with...
...barriers of tradition and regulation that used to separate different parts of the financial-services industry are rapidly being battered down. Today half a dozen giant companies are vying to become the leading one-stop financial shopping center. Smaller banks and regional brokerage firms are struggling to keep customers from defecting to national firms by stressing personal service and local connections. Some, like the American State Bank of Rapid City, S. Dak., which is being acquired by New York's Citibank, decided that it is easier and more profitable to sell...
Much of the blame for the present impasse falls on the Arabs. Arafat has known for months that he could make progress toward negotiations only if he forged an agreement with Hussein on a joint diplomatic strategy. Arab moderates have advised Arafat that, given the pressures imposed by the rapid Israeli colonization of the West Bank, it might be time to use the P.L.O.'s ultimate weapon-recognition of Israel's right to exist-in a bold show of statesmanship. But Arafat allowed the unity and preservation of the P.L.O. to take precedence over the interests...
...another possible Lampoon prank, three anonymous phone calls were made to The Crimson's newsroom in rapid succession...