Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this all sounds like pretty horrible stuff out of which to make a light comedy, but Function is--if anything--too tame. Like all British comedy, the pace of this film seems as thick and trudging as cold plum pudding. Bennett spends the first half hour erecting the framework of setting and plot within which his characters work An American used to getting his hamour in rapid-fire bursts can find this very tedious indeed...
...Pentagon $11 billion less than Reagan recommended for fiscal 1986, which starts on Oct. 1, and $79 billion less than the President is requesting over the next three fiscal years. It proposed to deny the military any increase at all next fiscal year, beyond what is necessary to keep pace with inflation, and hold the increase in 1987 and 1988 to 3% in excess of inflation. Reagan is asking for increases of 5.9% above inflation next year and more than 8% the following two years...
...title and assuring his sixth straight MVP distinction have lost some shock value. But this never means any less to him. "Every time I break a record I'm excited, even if it's my own. I want to crack the 212 this year (he is on a 214 pace), and some season before long somebody's going to get 100 goals. I'd like it to be me." Phil Esposito's 76 goals with the Boston Bruins served as the standard for eleven years, until Gretzky beat that by 16. "It takes guts," says Esposito, now retired, "to recognize...
Once slicing along at practice, the Oilers are awakened in every way. Though the lively pace of the scrimmage seems only slightly less dangerous than a regular game, helmets have been discarded, and the blush of exhilaration shows on all of their faces but glows on Gretzky's. Inoffensively, he laughs aloud at the successful plays, and drops his long jaw and howls at the blunders, drawing happy curses all around. Wimp does not fairly describe his 5-ft. 11- in., 170-lb. appearance in this bulky company, but it comes to mind. Almost every shot Gretzky takes, Officer Whitney...
After surging, stumbling and then bouncing back last year, the U.S. economy should settle down to a steadier, healthier pace in 1985. That was the optimistic forecast of TIME's Board of Economists when it met to survey the business outlook for the year. Despite concern about the instability of the dollar and the huge U.S. trade and budget deficits, the economists predicted that growth in the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, will be a solid 4% this year, a middle course between the harrowing extremes of 1984. Growth last year ranged from 10.1% in the first three...