1.   In times of accelerating change, the influence of myth is magnified.

2.   Indeed, it was already apparent that the accelerating changes in Massachusetts were creating a host of opportunities.

3.   It is a mythology, a belief that, in a world of accelerating change, not everything solid must melt into air.

4.   It resulted in accelerating change and economic growth on a scale never before imagined.

5.   The trend reflects accelerating changes in social attitudes toward unmarried men raising children, experts say.

6.   Things began to change, however, with the accelerating social changes wrought in the following century by immigration, urbanization and secularization.