31.   After being faint for a moment, that one heartbeat was moving at a rather rapid pace and beating extra loud after the biggest comeback in school history.

32.   All this is occurring as the world continues its rapid pace toward a postindustrial, information-based economy where a well-educated workforce is essential.

33.   Business tactics that seemed questionable, even incriminating, yesterday can be rendered irrelevant tomorrow by the rapid pace of technological change.

34.   But at the same time, drug companies slowed the rapid pace of their promotional spending.

35.   But compared with the rapid pace of change in next-door South Africa, it is a bit of whatever the opposite of future shock is.

36.   But competition is growing fiercer by the month, new products are being introduced and prices are being cut at an increasingly rapid pace, squeezing profits.

37.   But companies are borrowing at a rapid pace even though investors have not been very eager to buy bonds.

38.   But his argument is based on the rapid pace of economic growth, rather than on the pace of inflation.

39.   But Rodriguez is moving along at a rapid pace.

40.   But technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that cyber-cinema is moving from the realm of fantasy and science fiction to the headlines.