Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rush to plug the knowledge gap, revised books are being churned out: 160 teams of authors recently submitted manuscripts in a competition for new texts. Despite the haste, chances are that the books will not be ready in time for the fall, and the quality of the entries is said to be uneven. "Those in history still don't give the full story," growls Igor Parabrin, editor of the national teachers' newspaper...
Near the end of the evening rush hour, the engineer of commuter train No. 153951 peered down the tracks of Paris' Gare de Lyon and screamed in horror: another train was bearing down on him at high speed. Seconds later, the runaway train rammed 153951 at more than 50 m.p.h., turning it into a maze of shredded steel. The collision last week was the worst rail accident in Paris history and one of the worst ever in France. The toll: 56 dead and 13 seriously injured...
Bicycle Messenger Christopher Stalvey, 19, reached Attorney General Edwin Meese's Justice Department all set to rush in and deliver a package. No way, said guards at the door after taking a look at his T shirt. It read, "Experts Agree! MEESE...
...grown restless working for others, women entrepreneurs have become, in the words of the Small Business Committee report, a "gold mine of human capital." That mine has already tapped into a rich lode, and if the Government leads the way in - reducing discrimination against women in business, the gold rush will keep on gathering momentum...
Nonetheless, Vendler expresses optimism that minorities will follow the recent route of women scholars. "When possibilities are opened up, people rush in to fill them," she says...