Word: rapid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need for the building has long been clear to everyone associated with Children's. With inpatient buildings 30 to 70 years old, the hospital's physical plant has not kept pace with the rapid changes in pediatric medicine," said David S. Weiner, president of Children...
...long-term security needs of the United States depend on rapid technological development, which is not possible if broad communication restrictions are in place," the report says...
...market's rapid conversion from boom to gloom may well signal a fade-out of confidence in America's long-running economic good times. Despite reassuring words from the White House and Treasury Secretary James Baker, the unruly mob on Wall Street saw only the threat of rising interest rates and faltering economic growth. "I fear we will have the worst of possible worlds, with high interest rates and a recession," said Rudy Oswald, chief economist...
...nation where style is often as important as substance, Carlos Salinas de Gortari seems an unlikely choice to be President. He is short and almost bald, and his bushy mustache and outsize ears are a caricaturist's delight. His appetite for hard work and rapid-fire oratory have earned him the irreverent nickname Atomic Ant. Yet last week the Harvard-educated Salinas was named the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party for the July 1988 presidential election. Although Salinas will face opponents, his victory is virtually assured; the monolithic P.R.I. has not lost a national election since its founding...
Despite many inspiring advances, however, corporate America still suffers from handicaps that will impair its ability to keep up with the rapid evolution of products. An oft cited complaint is the lengthy lead times between the moment an idea is conceived and the time it finally rolls off an assembly line. In U.S. auto plants, that process takes as long as five years, twice as long as in Japan...