• The sheer quantity of water gushing under bridges meant the otters could not swim against the rapid current, so they tried to cross the road instead and often got hit by cars.

    BBC: New threats to UK otters' survival

  • Although fourth seeds in the group, the current Rapid team have made a few waves in the Europa League themselves, having already claimed the scalps of Aston Villa and Hamburg in the competition.

    BBC: Rapid return raises frenzy

  • The proof lies in the current combination of rapid growth, very low unemployment and barely visible inflation.

    ECONOMIST: The

  • Participants addressed current major challenges such as rapid population growth, environmental degradation, and climate change.

    UNESCO: Ministers discuss skills for green economies and societies at ECOSOC | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

  • The U.S.' demographic vitality will allow it to emerge from the current economic doldrums with more rapid growth than Europe--continuing a trend that has generally held for most of the past two decades.

    FORBES: New Geographer

  • Dr Peter Outen, a GP in Brentwood, Essex, said the current system was a sham and he called for rapid changes.

    BBC: GPs 'fiddle prescriptions for poor'

  • While some inventory draw down can be expected during the transition to summer gasoline, it is a pretty safe bet that the current high level of gasoline stocks will prevent a rapid escalation of prices this spring.

    FORBES: Why Spring Means Higher Gasoline Prices

  • Current data indicates all this ice is already thinning at a rapid rate.

    BBC: Canadian glaciers face 'big losses'

  • Unlike the current period, from 1983 on, the economy was in rapid catch-up mode and eventually regained all that had been lost during the early '80s.

    WSJ: Edward Lazear: The Worst Economic Recovery in History

  • In 2011 it co-founded e-Shang, a warehousing developer and operator based in Shanghai. e-Shang has grown from a portfolio of warehouses of 50, 000 square meters in 2011 to its current 1 million square meters of completed and developing projects, buoyed by the rapid growth of e-commerce in the country.

    WSJ: Investors Target Logistics Property in China

  • Its recent rebirth has been almost as rapid as its fall, helped by two related developments: power electronics capable of handling huge flows of current, and smaller, more powerful electric motors.

    ECONOMIST: Electric ships

  • In the current climate, marked by the increase in inequalities in the countries of the North and by rapid change in certain countries of the South, the age-old question of measuring development has taken a new form.

    UNESCO: Main Menu

  • The implication is that it would require continued rapid gains in house prices and continued falls in interest rates to sustain the pace of mortgage equity withdrawal at current levels.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

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