Word: pace
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Elections are the key to the party's -- and East Germany's -- future. They are scheduled for 1991, as required by the constitution, but the pace of change is pressing the country toward an earlier date, perhaps next spring. For the Communists, ironically, an early vote could prove a boon by keeping potential rivals from organizing effectively...
...timing of the offensive may also reflect the guerrillas' unease with developments in Eastern Europe. Just two months ago, F.M.L.N. Commander Joaquin Villalobos admitted that his forces could no longer "aspire to an armed revolution that the Soviet Union will subsidize." Since then the pace of change in Eastern Europe has accelerated so quickly that the F.M.L.N. may be worried that it will be forgotten by its Communist patrons. Toward that end, the F.M.L.N. may have been reminding both the Cristiani and Bush administrations that with or without foreign Communist support, the guerrillas must be part of any eventual settlement...
...Cristiani, the situation is delicate. During his presidential campaign, he courted votes by proclaiming his impatience with the pace of fighting permitted by his predecessor, Jose Napoleon Duarte. "The U.S. wants a low- intensity conflict, meaning do so much not to win, but not to lose," he said in March 1988. "That's not fair to the military." He went on to say that if the F.M.L.N. failed to accept a consensus proposal for peace, "that would justify harsher military action." Having been treated to a fairly easy first six months in office, Cristiani was finally put to the test...
...player at his last school, Minnesota. Holtz emphatically denies it. Now one hears the word burnout in South Bend. "Football encompasses his whole life. It's everything," says Kevin Holtz. Says Ara Parseghian, who quit, worn out, after eleven successful years: "I told him all summer, 'Please pace yourself.' " When asked what lessons he draws from the experiences of Parseghian and Leahy, who also was totally consumed by the job, Holtz merely says, "I'm a slow learner...
Perhaps most troubling is that Japanese direct investment in the U.S. is not only three times America's investment in Japan but is also growing at a remarkable pace. According to figures compiled by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis, Japan's direct investment (ownership of at least 10% of any one firm) in the U.S. stood at $53 billion in 1988, a 52% increase since 1987. Even so, Japanese direct investment was only one- fourth that of all Europe, about half that of Great Britain and roughly equal to that of the Netherlands...