"We think a lot of the rush to change has been from lack of success with the core business," said Erik Ginsberg, referring to the sessions.
The Gold Rush of 1849 changed the composition of the population as hundreds of thousands of fortune seekers from all over the United States and other countries entered the state.
His appointment appeared to be the explosive climax to the recent rush of controversial changes in the French fashion industry whereby innovative young foreign designers have been brought in to head up the venerable old couture houses.
With the last zombie tale swept away by a rush of climate-change dystopian sagas, the past year has seen a return to the real world and to relationship-led fiction with the edge of thrillers.
Burmese prisons are exceptionally isolated, and Chitmin Lay had picked up only scattered news, from a hidden radio that he shared with other inmates, about a rush of political changes that were beginning to unwind the world's longest-running military dictatorship.
I took one last look at the familiar, gap-toothed smile of the front grill, the scars and blisters on the roof, the faded bumper stickers ("Save Fenway Park," "Call Me Ishmael," "Have You Hugged Your Beanie Today?"), looked at all these, and with a sudden rush of emotion changed my mind.
Some myths that don't die: the idea that Bill Gates ever said "640 kilobytes [of RAM] should be enough for anyone" (he never said it, and is far too smart to think it); that doubling the number of people on a late project halves the time to finish it (it makes it even later); and that lots of people rush to change the settings – and especially the default settings – on computers and other devices.
But the Palestinians may not rush to change the name on the front of their passports to Palestine.
Think of the 18-year-old body, flooded with the dual adrenalin rushes of "hormonal change" and "absolute freedom", a body with the cells near oscillating with sheer anticipation, what the rollercoaster of Freshers Week does to them.
Andrew Macpherson, treasurer of the group Save Sunset Boulevard, said average citizens are not being heard as lawmakers rush to change the deadline.
The threat of a shutdown of US Airways, the nation's sixth-largest airline, whether through a strike or the company's pre-emptive action, was sowing tension and chaos in airports around the nation yesterday as thousands of passengers rushed to change their reservations or seek refunds on their tickets.
