Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million, immediately sought a peace treaty with Unocal. The company agreed to help Pickens cut his losses by buying about one-third of his group's 23.7 million shares at the $72 premium price. But Unocal is requiring him to sell off the rest at a slow pace. That process will tie up Pickens' investment until 1986 and probably put a hobble on his raiding activities. Even so, the routed Pickens was unruffled. Said he: "You can't hit a home run every time you come...
Updating the list to keep pace with new technology has proved to be a disconcertingly slow process, however. It was not until last year that the trigger list was expanded to include the equipment used in the centrifuge process. Long before then, Pakistan had acquired the technology, albeit illegally...
Yesterday's phenom, today's ho-hum. A few years ago, Richard Pryor was the comic everyman of movies and the top black box-office draw. But the pictures he made at machine-gun pace were too ordinary to sustain his eminence. He was still a star, but in spite of his work, not because of it. Worse, a new black phenom, with just as much on the ball and a better batting average, stole Pryor's thunder. Now he works in the shadows, a batting practice pitcher for All-Star Eddie Murphy...
Lewis will stay on as General Dynamics chairman until perhaps the end of the year to ensure a smooth management transition. His successor will not come from within the company, but is an outsider, Stanley C. Pace, 63, a West Pointer and currently vice chairman of TRW, a high-tech conglomerate based in Cleveland. Pace had been thinking of retirement, but decided instead to take on the tough General Dynamics assignment. Why stay in the fray? "That's a good question," Pace said at a news conference. "My wife asked me that." Lewis approached Pace to be his successor...
Egyptologists the world over are alarmed at the pace of the decay. Says Lanny Bell, director of Chicago House, the field project at Luxor established by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute: "In 200 years, many of the reliefs, which are really the significant part of these temples, will be gone. There will be only blank walls and columns left...