Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite once again dropping a full game off the league pace with but two Ivy contests remaining, Delaney Smith remarks after the Valentine's Day massacre that she still believes Dartmouth will lose another game...
While medical research into the AIDS virus has proceeded at a phenomenal pace, with doctors making new discoveries every month--or even daily, the prospect of a vaccine or a successful treatment for the disease is still years away. Some facts about AIDS are clear, however. The number of people known to be carrying the AIDS virus has been doubling every year since it was first discovered in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, 17,001 people have been diagnosed as actually suffering from AIDS as of February 3. However, current estimates place...
...Unfortunately, however, it also invites quick reactions--from individuals, employers, fearful communities, and the media. Precisely where we would hope for a quick reaction--on the part of the government--decision-making on public education, prevention programs, and social services for AIDS patients has proceeded at a snail's pace...
...expensive in other countries. But last September finance ministers and central bankers of the U.S. and four other industrial powers--Japan, France, Great Britain and West Germany--launched a successful effort to push down the dollar. It has declined by about 12% since then, first at a gradual pace and now at a fast clip. Last week the dollar plunged to 181 yen, a seven-year low against that currency, and to 2.34 West German marks, a level not seen since...
Writing in longhand does change one's style, Toad came to believe, a subtle change, of pace, of rhythm. Sentences in longhand seemed to take on some of the sinuosities of script. As he read his pages, Toad considered: The whole toad is captured here. L'ecriture, c'est l'homme (Handwriting is the man). Or: L'ecriture c'est le crapaud (Handwriting is the toad). What collectors pay for is the great writer's manuscript, the relic of his actual touch, like a saint's bone or lock of hair. What will we pay in future years...