Word: sooner
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...editors said they did not know when the plans to move away from primary research would go into effect, though they said that the new controversy might cause the change to take place sooner than anticipated...
...armed with “more logical usernames” ending in @college.harvard.edu, a “faster, cleaner webmail interface,” and “10gb quotas.” But some students will be able to use the new e-mail addresses and interface much sooner than this spring. Within the next few weeks, the e-mail specifies, up to 1,600 students—or about a quarter of the College’s undergraduates—will be tapped to take part in a pilot program that will last...
...Washington may be forced to abandon its current easy-money policies sooner than expected, in part because of the looming budget realities of big entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicaid. But for now, big spending will continue to be the order of the day. "There's a recession," says Richard Kogen, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities who spent 21 years as a staffer on the House Budget Committee. "Recessions temporarily increase the deficit. A couple of years after they're over, everything returns to where it was before." The next President no doubt...
...many of the 31 states that have early voting, Americans have already cast their ballot for President. And while exit pollsters refuse to reveal their results until voting sites close because they don't want to discourage people from voting, I feel that the sooner we can end this thing the better. So on Oct. 9, I went to Ohio, where people had started voting a week earlier, and stood outside the early-voting site in Cincinnati to conduct America's first 2008 exit poll...
...Walter C. Monegan III - who as Alaska's former Public Safety Commissioner was the state's top cop - Oct. 10 couldn't have come sooner. After being fired in early July from his position by Governor Sarah Palin, Monegan quickly asserted that the reasons for his firing were unethical and unjustified. He maintained he was dismissed because he refused to succumb to pressure from the Palin administration to fire Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who was at that time going through a bitter divorce and custody battle with Palin's younger sister, Molly McCann. Monegan claimed the governor's office...