Fast-track
fast-track (adjective) - the quickest route to achieving a goal in politics or a career
be on the fast-track
a fast-track executive
a fast-track movie executive
a fast-track management programme
a series of fast-track official posts to make him a credible contender for the job
fast-track methods
fast-track proposals
a fast-track approach
a fast-track solution
fast-track authority
a fast-track deadline
a fast-track mandate
fast-track authority to negotiate
a fast-track approach
a fast-track agreement
fast-track legislation
offered a fast-track escape route from
a fast-track law
Example sentences:
* "The Eighties career woman who had it all: looks, glamour, fast-track, moneyed lifestyle, husband, children."
* "What little new fiction by youngish writers there has been has tended to be incestuous tales of fast-track living in the media boomtown of the Eighties: books sold and written in the Groucho Club bar."
* "Tim Robbins plays Griffin Mill, a young, fast-track movie executive whose career comes under threat when another young Turk arrives at the same studio."
* "You don't have to be on the fast-track to get job satisfaction."
* "She is emphatic that the programme is not a fast-track management programme but a way of offering highly motivated individuals the chance to fully develop themselves in technical, business and behavioural areas."
* "Because of his fast-track methods, such people may well be returned to face even greater danger to themselves and their families in the countries from which they have come."
* "Profound disquiet has been expressed about some of the proposals in the Bill, particularly the fast-track ones."
* "France, Italy, Belgium and Denmark all supported the fast-track approach."
* "The fast-track procedure allowed any agreement reached by US negotiators to be subsequently voted on as a package."
* "Truly, we have travelled a long way from the high hopes and higher hyperbole of the 1980s, when inward investment offered a fast-track escape route from a crumbling manufacturing base."
* Obviously the inclusion of British assets in the new Dutch Trucks NV would have been a fast-track solution."
* "A fast-track law to clamp down on the carrying of knives in Scotland is to be backed by the Government."
* "He was given a series of fast-track official posts to make him a credible contender for the job."
* "A deadline looms: March 1st, the date by which a deal must be submitted to Congress if a fast-track authority is to protect it from amendment."
* "Everybody accepts that there is no chance of an agreement to extend the fast-track deadline beyond the beginning of March."
* "But Congress's fast-track mandate, good until March 1st, will have to be extended if real progress is to be made."
* "The US Congress has recently granted President Bush fast-track authority to negotiate both the Uruguay Round and the North American Free Trade Area, showing the importance they attach to a favourable outcome in both."
