Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then a great rush of onlookers forced us to stand. Packed onto the highway, we waited impatiently for the show to begin...
...move did end, in a peal of applause, something truly amazing happened, for New York: no one got up and started to run for the exit. Just about everyone sat still for the credits, and even for the closing announcements, as though they didn't care about beating the rush. No doubt Frank Capra would have preferred it if everyone had joined in a chorus of "Auld Lang Syne"--but, for this temporary New Yorker, it was a not unimportant thing, a fleeting improvement in the city's ailing quality of life...
Your story conveniently omits one critical factor: humans. For decades, it's been painfully apparent that water resources are limited. Nonetheless developers blindly rush to promote growth for growth's sake, with no recognition of human-caused depletion of precious resources. Instead of limiting growth, rationing water, conserving energy and living sustainably, modern society with its insatiable appetite gobbles and wastes resources. Humans have profound effects on the environment, yet too often such negative impacts are simplistically regarded as "acts of God" or "natural causes." JOHN D. LYLE Fairbanks, Alaska...
...about 4:30 p.m., all the research is compiled and taken to Mr. Rose's office (one of the interns places it on the table outside, knocks and leaves). The second phase of the extraordinarily long work day begins, just as the rush hour crowds begin to fill the elevators...
Mingling with the powerful and the famous is a bit of a rush, whether it's Woody Harrelson arriving fashionably late, Ted Sorensen dozing off in the corner or Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, his wife and Russian official Sergei Karaganov conversing and laughing in Russian...