Word: rapidness
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...streets empty quickly. Curfew unofficially begins at 11 p.m., but few drivers, even those earning dollars from foreigners, stay out that late. One learns to fear the shadows that move. Gunfire punches holes in the city's eerie quiet. Two sharp cracks signal an American checkpoint firing warning shots. Rapid automatic fire sounds the news that electricity has returned to a neighborhood. Most ominous of all is the single shot...
...hopes that stepped up patrolling by coalition forces - and, particularly, the addition of some 4,000 military police personnel and a large contingent of British troops more experienced in peacekeeping roles - will help stabilize the situation. He has also committed to a program of disarming Iraqis, although the rapid growth of militias linked to the various political factions, and the fact that so many Baghdadis are now relying on weapons of their own to protect themselves and their property in the absence of adequate policing, may make that a tough task...
...executive director position is particularly important in an organization with rapid student-leadership turnover, according to PBHA President Ayirini M. Fonseca-Sabune ’04, who chaired the committee charged with finding someone to fill the post...
...RAPID MUTATION...
...fellow member of the "axis of evil," Kim Jong Il must have found the rapid fall of Saddam Hussein unsettling. But to North Korea's Dear Leader, America is not only a potential military enemy, but also an insidious moral threat. The danger posed is outlined in "On Vigorously Combating the Infiltration of Capitalist Ideology and Culture," a 16-page North Korean document which TIME has obtained. Stamped "For Internal Party Use Only" and purportedly distributed to senior Party officials late last year, the document asserts that the U.S., South Korea and Japan are besieging the North with pornographic videos...