Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of Faculty members designing the concentration requested a delay so that a Faculty vote on the issue could come sooner after the discussion...
...scared. Support your President. That's what I'd do." The crowd burst into applause. Bush continued: "I have broken with the President on other things, but let me tell you, he made a tough decision." But then Bush added: "If the President had acted sooner, those hostages would have been out of there, and I believe that the U.S. would not have been subject to the dwindling erosion of respect around the world...
Because it responds more rapidly to fluctuations in readers' tastes, TIME'S new bestseller list is less static than its predecessor. Says Books Assistant Sharon Lauver, who helped coordinate tests of the new method: "Not only do books shift position more frequently, but new titles show up sooner." This week three works appear for the first time. To make such information more readily available to American readers, TIME is furnishing displays of its new bestseller list to bookstores around the U.S. TIME'S readers, of course, need look no further than our Books section...
Mugabe also faces a problem in containing black expectations. Explains Eddison Zvobgo, Minister for Local Government and Housing: "Our people must understand that we are coming out of a war. This period will have to be one of belt tightening and self-reliance." No sooner had Mugabe taken office last month than his new government was hit by a series of strikes in the textile, clothing, electronics and food industries. The strikes were swiftly put down by a combination of reason and rule. After dispatching his Labor Minister on a nationwide tour to hear the workers' grievances, Mugabe angrily...
...runners weren't immune from the entrepreneurial onslaught. They had no sooner finished the race than they were given the opportunity of a life time to buy certificates declaring in fancy letters on parchment and signed by witnesses that they had completed the Boston Marathon. For only...