On that cold December morning I found my agitation mounting as I paced the platform inside the train station.
"The mounting pile of full scrapbooks drove him to work at an ever more desperate pace," Mayor wrote.
But perhaps nowhere are the effects being felt more keenly than here in Mexico, where the toll in jobs is mounting at a staggering pace.
The False Memory Syndrome Foundation was founded to help families confront their accusers, and soon the media reversed its supportive stance and began to criticize the movements; and criticism within the profession was also mounting at a furious pace.
After mounting criticism over the pace and organization of the investigation in the last week, law enforcement officials said they took some satisfaction in knowing that old-fashioned "shoe leather" police work appeared to have cracked the case.
But with frustrations mounting over the glacial pace of initiating peace talks with the Taliban, and with American relations with the Karzai government continuing to deteriorate, it is unclear whether the Pentagon and American commanders in Afghanistan would vigorously resist if the White House pushed for a full-scale pullout months ahead of schedule.
In a second term, the Bush administration expects the nation's burdensome health care bill to continue mounting at a brisk pace -- from an estimated $1.79 trillion, or $6,167 a person, in 2004 to a projected $2.39 trillion, or $7,928 a person, in 2008.
With the federal judge assigned to the civil and criminal cases growing out of the conspiracy voicing mounting impatience with the pace of the Justice Department's four-year-old inquiry, the contours of a battle over Mr. Taubman's fate have begun to emerge in courtroom skirmishes and out-of-court maneuverings.
The schools could not keep pace with the mounting demand for education.
