Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economy can be pernicious. Since businesses supplied with capital from drug dealing don't have to worry about profits, efficiency or paying interest, they can drive out legitimate enterprises. "It's a little like cocaine itself," notes Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute. "You get a quick rush that may make you feel better in the short run. But in the long run, the destructive effects are greater...
Marcy and Butler's announcement could change the course of astronomy. "This is extraordinarily important," says astronomer Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. "This is the first glimmering we have that normal solar systems exist beyond our own." It is sure to trigger a rush to find new planets. Indeed, half a dozen teams around the world are already looking. And in an address to the astronomers a few hours after Marcy's talk, NASA administrator Daniel Goldin announced a new program whose goal, he says, will be "not only detecting but taking direct images of Earthlike worlds...
...Greaves began to like Hasan's plan. For one thing, it would allow Health Net to go public instantly, using the already public QualMed as a vehicle. The merger would also create an eight-state network and give both companies an edge in the rush toward consolidation, a fundamental imperative of the new medicine...
...BASEMENT OFFICE suites in suburban Murray Hill, New Jersey, are being expanded almost 50%, and in a big rush. Workmen are knocking down walls and hammering nails into temporary partitions to get cubicles ready as early as next week for the people who will be surging...
...Senate, where Republican Mark Hatfield of Oregon defected, insisting it was a gimmick. At the moment, the House and Senate are crafting a compromise on another kind of budget-cutting measure, the presidential line-item veto. But with a Democrat in the White House, Republicans are in no rush to hand Clinton a scalpel...