Microsoft's developer gambit is that it will bring a huge chunk of the Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and Phone 8.1 universe under the 10 aegis in rapid order, creating a massive base for developers to sell into.
Like high-wire trapeze artists, the field-goal snapper, holder and kicker must seamlessly mesh their specific and unrelated talents in rapid order and in a confined space, doing so with painstaking precision time after time.
In rapid order, it has become a member of OPEC and its oil minister is currently serving as president of the cartel.
The inhibition was found to be a combination of two processes: first a rapid process (order of minutes) connected to diffusion limited adsorption of the inhibitor, leading to the inhibition of the anodic part reaction, and a second slower process (order of hours) leading to a reduction in the corrosion rate through the inhibition of the cathodic part reaction(s).
On a brief foray abroad this summer, he managed, in rapid order, to insult the British, to pander crudely to Benjamin Netanyahu in order to win the votes and contributions of his conservative Jewish and Evangelical supporters, and to dodge ordinary questions from the press in Poland.
If Iraq does eliminate immunity and a contactor employee does get thrown in Iraqi jail, there could be a crippling flight of employee personnel out of the country in rapid order.
If ever Rico Gear and Miles Benjamin, on the wings, receive rapid delivery, they will carry their side from the basement to the penthouse in rapid order.
He spoke favorably of World War II saboteurs being "executed in relatively rapid order" under military tribunals set up by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In rapid order the front door was opened, the lights were turned on, the door to the garden was opened, the food was set down and the first bottle of Korbel was popped.
Rather, Mr. Scheirer said, the probable outcome is that the sides will settle in "rapid order" because neither Bertelsmann nor its fellow record labels want to see Napster's investigation proceed.
