India's bureaucracy remains stifling, and the potholes and traffic on the country's roads are so bad that vehicles scarcely move faster than walking speed in some areas; in other areas, sometime gruesome crashes are a regular occurrence.
Although summer is scarcely under way, the fast-forward fashion timetable has already put these prints on the sale racks to make room for the fall lines.
When he graduated from the university in 1897 at the head of his class, he was already established as a high-strung, fast-talking dynamo, scarcely able to rest.
The chorus line, the racecourse, the political rally, the bloodthirsty mob tearing after the villain and the team of synchronised swimmers in Cecil B de Mille formations: the images flash up so fast you can scarcely catch hold of them, at first.
China has been growing so fast it has scarcely stopped to consider the environmental cost.
"For the longer term, prospects for ongoing rapid technological advance and associated faster productivity growth are scarcely diminished," he said.
"For the longer term," he told the Senate Banking Committee, "prospects for continued rapid technological advance and associated faster productivity growth are scarcely diminished".
Their voices differ: some speak so fast that one can scarcely hear them -- much less understand what they say; others are so ponderously slow, almost unwilling to give their information.
While glucose tolerance abnormalities are common in cystic fibrosis (CF), impaired fasting glucose (IFG) has scarcely been explored.
Finally, there is Allison Crutchfield, who has her own band, Swearin', which is faster and fuzzier than Waxahatchee, and scarcely less appealing — it would be odd to love one without at least liking the other.
