Word: paced
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...occur if the American soil were not already faith-saturated. But Ratzinger believes in America's "obvious spiritual foundation," its natural, Puritan-instilled DNA. He is well aware that this is eroding; he thinks we watch too much TV and fears that American secularization is proceeding at an "accelerated pace." But he insists that there is a "much clearer and implicit sense" in the U.S. than in Europe of a morality "bequeathed by Christianity." He has also given earnest thought to the mechanics of this civil religion, specifying that to affect the moral consensus, it is not enough for Catholics...
...really prevent crises, then, we would need to prevent or at least seriously slow the pace of innovation. This sounds terribly un-American (although, of course, it was U.S. government policy from the 1930s through the 1970s), and when it comes to professional financiers making deals with other pros, perhaps we're better off leaving them...
...While a monthly fund-raising total of $30 million or more would be well short of the more than $55 million Obama raised during the month of February, it would still represent nearly $1 million a day - a healthy pace for a campaign that has had a politically rocky last few weeks. And it likely ensures that Obama will be able to afford large TV and radio advertising buys in the remaining primary states, the official claimed...
...should have been.”Simmons started the scoring early in the first period, giving the Crimson a 1-0 lead. Freshman Jess Halpern continued the effort with the next two Harvard goals, but Vermont was able to match each one, locking the score at 3-3. The pace of the game did not change until the second half of the first period, when the Crimson knocked in five goals and the Catamounts tallied only one. Vermont finally responded in the beginning of the second half with three goals in a row. But the comeback was short-lived...
...Washington, D.C., said that the technical difficulties and expenses for the cleanup are substantial, but that Japan has the technological base to get on with the project - if the political will is in place. "Not surprisingly," Smithson said, "the Chinese and some outside observers have criticized the snail's pace of destruction efforts." That pace has just gotten even slower, highlighting the difficulty the two countries continue to face in putting a nasty past behind them...