Hardest hit are cities and the fast-growing South and West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teachers Wanted] Reference

Its venerable PowerBook dominates the fast-growing laptop market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ripe For A Change] Reference

Mom, one of Tokyo's fast-growing "silver generation," lives each day fully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help! I Need Somebody] Reference

China, a fast-growing and symbolically important market, was closed to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back In The Spotlight] Reference

(Hint: It's a really big and fast-growing nation on a continent called Asia).    From Wordnik.com.  [From Bad To Worse] Reference

Good government is relative; some fast-growing societies tolerated much corruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rx for Global Poverty] Reference

Certainly, he's found little support among Africa's fast-growing Anglican provinces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Partnerships: Hil Sans Bill: Brown Take Heed] Reference

She shared photos of their fast-growing brood by email, and he kept his men alive in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  ['It's Tearing Families Apart'] Reference

HAS A saccharine slogan for its fast-growing agricultural business: Food, Health and Hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [High-Tech Harvests] Reference

Neither are the airports, but that's the price of rising prosperity in a fast-growing country.    From Wordnik.com.  [PREPARING FOR TAKEOFF] Reference

A cash culture has stunted real-estate markets even in countries with fast-growing populations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning to Leverage] Reference

Presidential candidates woo Pratt and his angry, fast-growing membership, 150,000 and climbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendly Fire] Reference

I still existed even though every fast-growing cancer cell was being killed by the chemotherapy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Showing Off A Little (Inner) Cleavage] Reference

Delhi's fast-growing satellite cities have plenty of spare land -- and nine malls in development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mall Rush?] Reference

In fast-growing areas in the West and the Southeast, hiring teachers is as hard as finding space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standing Room Only] Reference

One is WorldCom, the fast-growing long-distance company that gobbled up giant MCI a few months ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dialing For D Marks: Phone Wars Hit Europe] Reference

SynOptics Communications of Santa Clara, Calif., is a fast-growing manufacturer with 1,400 workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Anyone Spare A Job?] Reference

President Bill Clinton saw on his spring tour -- a land of software gurus and a fast-growing middle class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caste Struggle] Reference

Many seek out less lucrative (but often more hands-on) positions in the fast-growing field of Mideast NGOs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Subject] Reference

The United States generally pays more attention to fast-growing Asia than it does to Europe, and rightly so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The European Envy Effect] Reference

Down the road, the purchase offers the company further entree into the fast-growing area of interactive media.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Deal That's Fit To Print] Reference

The Howards are participants in the new and fast-growing sport of geocaching, a 21st-century version of hide-and-seek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip Sheet] Reference

Shortly after he arrived, Lee took charge of a project to build a massive new sanctuary for the fast-growing congregation.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Korea’s Sarkozy] Reference

Women are also the most likely buyers of education and family-entertainment products, a fast-growing segment of the industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [MEN, WOMEN & COMPUTERS] Reference

As the world's second largest oil producer, after Saudi Arabia, Russia sits atop a huge and fast-growing pool of natural riches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Much Money] Reference

But for much of the fast-growing population of computer-owning taxpayers, the filing process is becoming streamlined and cheaper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turbo Tussle] Reference

Our previous concerns were to prevent a fast-growing economy from overheating and to prevent soaring prices from becoming inflation.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘We Should Join Hands’] Reference

"We are looking at these slowing times as an opportunity," says George Mahoney, executive vice president of fast-growing Family Dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheap Thrills For Shoppers] Reference

And competitors like fast-growing Internet company iVillage are gaining credibility and backing as dominant forces in the women's market.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth Of A Network] Reference

"As long as we keep innovating, we're not afraid of anyone," says Theo Freye, chairman of the fast-growing, €2.7 billion-a-year company.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Factory Of Factories] Reference

But the biggest winners could be newer, fast-growing outfits like United Talent Agency, whose clients include a slew of top screen-writers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knives Out Over Hollywood] Reference

RCDs are rural cluster developments, a zoning category in Seattle's fast-growing suburbs in which new houses are bunched together in order to preserve open space.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Green to Black] Reference

FOUR YEARS AGO, GLEN KELLEY was a software specialist at a Midwestern shipping company when Whittman-Hart, a fast-growing Chicago consulting group, offered him a job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Year Of The Employee] Reference