When one character dies in "Infinite Jest," he is "catapulted home over... glass palisades at desperate speeds, soaring north, sounding a bell-clear and nearly maternal alarmed call-to-arms in all the world's well-known tongues".
This means, in effect, shifting more wealth and power into black hands, something the government is desperate to speed up.
The result is a lot of desperate high-speed chases, one in four of which result in someone getting injured, and causing 400 deaths a year in America alone.One way to avoid the need for chases would be to track felonious vehicles electronically, instead of running after them.
At this writing, the federal government, in a desperate effort to speed the recovery, has spent or committed to spend (I include the stimulus package now wending its way through Congress, as it seems certain to be enacted) $7.2 trillion $5.2 trillionn by the Federal Reserve, $2 trillion by the Treasury Department) and has guaranteed another $2 trillion in loans and deposits.
And it was a glaring example of the desperate need for youth, speed and energy on defense that will most likely mean that Lewis, Marvin Jones and others will be gone.
Indeed, as SP funding melts away, its funding ringfence removed, and its infrastructure corroded by cuts made on an astonishing scale and at terrifying speed by desperate councils, it increasingly looks like another lost and unacknowledged Labour success story.
President Barack Obama endorsed a trade pact during his State of the Union address Tuesday, answering pleas from European leaders desperate for a way to speed up economic growth.
He is one of the few top-flight linebackers in a very weak draft for the position, and the Jets are desperate to add youth and speed, particularly because they lost James Darling and will probably need a player to step into a starting job in 2004.
I worked in the shipping industry for two decades and I knew ship's captains and mates who risked their lives sailing through waters infested by real pirates; not the "Aargh, Avast ye matie" shouting buffoons with funny hats, but desperate young men in high speed boats wielding AK47s and RPGs.
It certainly feels as if it was written at speed by a man desperate to seize his moment.
