Niederauer says outsiders ask him why Goldman is in such a hurry to overhaul itself.

FORBES: Fear, Greed And Technology

Few associates believed anything was wrong because the sales drop happened so fast, and many wondered aloud why he was in such a hurry, he recalls.

WSJ: Driving Change Without Rocking the Boat

Now, several Republican congressmen have begun to ask pointedly why the president is in such a hurry to reform Social Security, whose solvency problems are not as bad as Medicare's.

ECONOMIST: The Bush presidency

They were in such a hurry to condemn Young for using the w-word that they missed the fact that they were repeating the word over and over again, which suggests either that they're tone deaf or that they weren't as offended as they pretended to be.

CNN: Stop using the 'w-word'

Nor should an expensive entitlement, such as Medicare, be expanded in a hurry.

ECONOMIST: So much to do, so little time

Mr Kennedy, wiser, younger and in less of a hurry than Mr Ashdown, can be under no such illusion.

ECONOMIST: The Scottish play

At the moment, such reconfigurable chips are used mainly as a way of conjuring up specialist hardware in a hurry.

ECONOMIST: Hardware goes soft