Word: paced
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...Manager Union of Concerned Scientists Washington The U.S. has been hit on two fronts - devastating hurricanes and ballooning prices at the gas pump. What appears to be an incurable addiction to automobiles resulted in scenes of cars frozen in gridlock or moving in endless lines at a snail's pace, as residents of Houston fled Hurricane Rita. This could well be what regular rush-hour traffic will look like a decade from now as we continue to build more cars than mass-transit vehicles and more highways than mass-transit infrastructure. The Bush Administration seems to be in denial about...
...process has to be one that’s not drawn out over too many months or years,” Gadgil says. “Moving along the calendar at a pace that doesn’t obstruct the formation of this center on campus is something that’s really important...
...employers, don't completely trust them; they may feel vulnerable negotiating one on one with a clever boss or a manager who's the servant of a powerful corporation. Whether or not they belong to a union, workers have traditionally had the protection of award minimum wages that keep pace with national prosperity. So the support for the current system comes from a deep sense of fairness towards the industrially weak, low-paid young people and those who have rotten luck at work...
...what went wrong? Two years ago, says Miller, he began to home in on oil and gas stocks. He had never liked them, knowing that oil prices had fallen in real terms over 150 years while demand had grown at a desultory pace?"a formula for a bad long-term investment." Still, after years of lackluster performance, the sector was cheap, so he drew up a list of buys, like Devon Energy, Apache and XTO Energy. But he never bought them. "I was preoccupied with other things," Miller admits. "When I got around to doing it, the prices had moved...
...think Brown was really surprised in the first game because our record is not that impressive,” Blotky said. “But then they came out stronger in the second game.”In the second frame the Bears set the pace by pulling out to a 5-2 lead. Aided by setter Leigh Martin and her match-high 65 assists, Brown had 17 kills on .259 hitting and left the Crimson in the dust.Brown led the entire fourth frame, but the Crimson showed signs of life when Turley-Molony notched one of her 13 kills...