Word: rapid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have burrowed throught back issues and the newsroom controversies in search of the paper's "secret." Bray's book is competent and comprehensive, but he seems satisfied to describe how the Post grew, rather than why it grew. He breezes over pivotal factors, ("As World War II sparked the rapid growth of Washington, the Post began making a little money.") in favor of boardroom trivia. The result, unfortunately, reads like a Harvard Business School Case Study with anecdotes, and, as such probably will not be read...
...major cities, which will be hurt by a proposed cancellation of revenue-sharing funds from Washington. Chicago stands to lose $55 million for its school system, which is already so strapped that teachers suffered four payless paydays last winter. Cleveland may have to buy fewer buses and rapid-transit cars; Miami fears its parks will deteriorate without federally paid help; St. Louis may be forced to stop serving free meals to the elderly poor...
...Even though the House Armed Services Committee last week voted to block funding of the Pentagon's $6 billion to $7 billion C-X transport plane program planned for the mid-1980s, engineers are at work on designs and mockups. The new plane would be used for the rapid transport of forces to hot spot areas like the Middle East. Says...
...date last year by James E. Horigan, a Denver lawyer intrigued by scientific theory. In Chance or Design? (Philosophical Library; $13.95) he contends that narrowly antireligious Darwinism ignores the way in which inanimate nature is in harmony with organic evolution. Nor, he asserts, can evolutionary theory possibly explain the rapid emergence of the large brain in the developing human species...
...aftermath of the startlingly rapid collapse of the Shah of Iran, images were evoked of a CIA shackled by an overzealous Congress--the latter being depicted as opportunistically demonstrating its "integrity" to the post-Watergate cynical American public by raking the CIA over the coals. But the "handstied CIA" explanation was seriously challenged when Jesse J. Leaf, former CIA analyst in Iran, revealed that as early as 1973 CIA operatives cautioned Washington about the vulnerability of the Shah (an act which Leaf alleges cost him his job). Furthermore, the eventual resurgence of the opposition to the Shah was predicted outside...