Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Japanese businesses say the rush of financially healthy companies toward new partners is the result of a "merger neurosis." Others think that it is not neurotic at all. "The time is ripe for mergers," argues Yawata President Yoshihiro Inayama, 64. "Intensification of international competition makes it imperative for Japanese firms to strengthen their internal structures...
...case of any concert, there are always nits to pick. Mrs. Harbison and even Levin himself exhibited a tendency to rush and blur the details in more rapid passages. In addition, they both had the annoying habit of building to a climax but somehow giving up or losing concentration before the crucial moment. The result was a large number of fractured phrases and a general sense of frustration. Mrs. Harbison's intonation, like that of the quintet, was frequently poor...
Night after night, two planes packed with 20 tons of hair curlers took off from Copenhagen. In seven weeks last spring, 350,000 heat-retaining Carmen Curler sets were airlifted to New York on rush order from the U.S. beauty firm, Clairol. Labeled "Carmen" or "Kindness" and marketed by Clairol, nearly a million of the Danish-made curlers have already been snatched up by American women, for prices ranging from $13 to $40 a set. An additional 500,000 were sold in more than a score of other countries...
...even consider a Stalinist purge to reduce the mouths to feed. Only tonight does my roommate decide to occupy a building. I have about seven degrees of disdain and contempt for him but he got in before my watch. I stamp on the hand of anyone who leaves "Rush." This allows them to get back...
...that we're leaving, that the blacks have asked us to leave. I get up and leave. The column of evicted whites shuffles over to Low Library. A guy in front rams a wooden sign through the security office side doors and about 200 of us rush in. Another 150 hang around outside because the breaking glass was such a bad sound. They become the first "sundial people." Inside we rush up to Kirk's office and someone breaks the lock. I am not at all enthusiastic about this and suggest that perhaps we ought to break...