For his fans, the immediacy of his leaving Paris, where it all started with a first-round defeat to Pat Rafter in 1999, will be shock enough; to even think the end could be approaching faster than anyone had imagined will induce nightmares.
After decades of warnings that budgetary profligacy, escalating health care costs and an aging population would lead to a day of fiscal reckoning, economists and the nation's foreign creditors say that moment is approaching faster than expected, hastened by a deep recession that cost trillions of dollars in lost tax revenues and higher spending for safety-net programs.
However cavalierly some European officials talk of "managing" a Greek exit, the political and financial costs would represent a fundamental challenge to the European Union and its credibility, and the point of no return may be approaching faster than anyone anticipated.
The era of public space travel is approaching faster than most people think, driven by the human desire for adventure, travel and fun, and by the economic motivation for creating a space industry.
With the 2016 Democratic Convention approaching faster than we expect, seems this piece of narrative from the 2008 DNC may be worth reporting.
In these ravens, the presence of a sibling did not influence the time they spent close to, or manipulating, the novel object, but it seemingly had an enhancing effect on neophilia with siblings approaching faster than nonsiblings (Stöwe, Bugnyar, Loretto, et al., 2006).
