Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After years of legal wrangling, the pace of executions quickens
California is a prime example of an impressive upturn in state fortunes. While the national deficit, already monstrous, continues to grow at an alarming pace, the vast majority of states are enjoying budget surpluses, the reward for years of belt tightening and budget slashing. The National Conference of State Legislatures estimates that the collective budget surpluses for 1984 total $5.3 billion, more than double the $2.1 billion figure of a year before...
...racial, political-may be getting out of hand. Last week the city's school system, third largest in the U.S. with 430,000 students, was shut down by a teachers' strike, the second in two years. Black and Hispanic youth gangs have kept up their amazing homicidal pace, killing six people in the two weeks since the offhand murder of Ben Wilson, a local high school basketball superstar, shocked and disturbed the city. Groups of white thugs have been attacking the homes of black and Hispanic families who dared to live among them. At city hall, the confrontation...
...Angeles was the capital of cool, and Souther and the Eagles were the cornerstones of close harmony and acrid social observation. Punk and new wave blew this kind of music out of the water, or at least seemed to. But the substance of new wave could not always keep pace with the style, which may be one reason why Souther sounds so good right now. Another, of course, is that he is a very skillful writer whose love songs have both the toughness and the solid sentimentality of film noir. A tune like the title track is a very neat...
...taken to asking in the manner of Clara ("Where's the beef?") Peller, "Where's the inflation?" Since January the consumer price index has risen at an annual rate of 4.5%. Producer prices, which often foreshadow trends in consumer costs, have gone up at a mild 1.8% pace so far this year and have actually declined for the past three months. Many economists think Volcker has room to nudge interest rates down by perhaps another percentage point without rekindling inflation...