Word: paced
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...more reserved than your typical designer, but he recognizes that part of the role of the designer is to be the front man, and he shields his businessman brother from media attention. The businessman gives the designer something rare in return: time. Albert can work at his own pace to ensure the perfection for which Akris is now celebrated...
Ultimately, of course, Anne is Willie's undoing. But it is important to Warren, and to Zaillian, who has the courage to let his very handsome movie unfold at a stately but not self-important pace, that its tragedy is located not in the semicomic hurly-burly of politics but in the dankness of the heart. What's being said here is that politics is always, at least temporarily, reformable--Willie Stark, for a moment, had that power--but that irrational need is beyond governance...
...Mexico and Montana, Eathorne owns the rights to only the surface of his 32,000 acres; the Federal Government owns most of what lies beneath. Washington, increasingly eager to find domestic sources of energy, is leasing the subsurface rights of those so-called split estates at an unprecedented pace to energy companies. Wyoming's abundance of gas reserves makes it especially attractive. The state's citizens have lived through energy booms--and busts--before. But while oil and gas jobs came and went, the ranch remained. This time, ranchers say, the boom risks ruining the land that has always sustained...
...turnaround could go a long way toward helping Esprit maintain its frenetic pace. "Because growth rates have started to slow down, they need to get into bigger markets where their penetration is low," says Macquarie retail analyst Ramiz Chelat in Hong Kong. Hello, U.S.A. By 2002, sales had fallen to $150 million, from $700 million in 1987, according to Macquarie. Krogner got control of Esprit's American business when Ying bought the U.S. trademark in 2002. (The company is now publicly traded; Ying owned 15.8% as of the end of 2005.) As part of the acquisition, Krogner forced a shutdown...
...much higher than they used to be, we simply can't continue to write down there. For a while, Florida had a thousand families a day moving in, home values have escalated rapidly, and yet the rate increases we're allowed to charge [by state regulators] have not kept pace with that. So we've made some hard decisions and scaled back our coverage in Florida, the Gulf Coast and in some of the exposed areas in New York. We've raised our rates where appropriate, and we've got different deductibles. We've also added a lot of reinsurance...