Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roger Blough and other U.S. steelmen are convinced that the best way to keep the U.S. steel industry healthy and competitive is to develop and adopt new processes faster than the rest of the world, continue rapid modernization of their plants and equipment. The U.S. has no monopoly on progress; foreign steel tycoons are also fully aware of the need to forge ahead, are engaged in a race whose stake is bigger markets, more efficiency, lower costs. The race requires enormous amounts of money, especially for the U.S., which carries the front runner's burden of keeping the world...
...dream of bone doctors for generations has been a substance that will glue broken bones together, permit rapid recovery. Last year the surgical world perked up its ears when an American orthopedic surgeon told of a plastic glue that foams and hardens after being poured into the hollow channels of broken or diseased bones, seems to have no toxic effects. Last week the medical world was evaluating a progress report by Dr. Michael P. Mandarino of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital that the plastic glue was 94% successful in the treatment of 250 cases...
Uive Kitzinger, politics don at Nuffield College, Oxford, provded a friendly foil for a summary of current Labour Party policies by Reg Prentice, a Labour MP. Both agreed that division of sentiment within the parties had caused the rapid quieting of the constitutional din following Suez...
...reasons for the growth, says the report, are not only an increase in the volume of capital goods (of which the U.S. has more than any other nation), but the U.S.'s large and growing investment in education, science and technology. Russia's rapid industrial growth is a factor that must be reckoned with, concludes the report, but so must two other facts: Soviet labor drained into industry leaves other sectors of Russia's economy weakened and. since Russian manpower has its limits, "has even more important implications for the future rate of Russia's industrial...
Events move swiftly and suddenly in this play, almost as fast as those of Macbeth. Over and above this, much can be done to cover up the structural shortcomings by maintaining a rapid and unbroken flow. Much has been done in this regard in the current Stratford production, under the direction of Jack Landau. Landau has wisely allowed only one intermission. And, using a somewhat trimmed text, he has on occasion overlapped the scenes; for instance, the Capulets' ball gets under way before Romeo and his pals on the street outside have finished their say. The resulting production...