Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people away," said Charles O'Connell, the Olympic traffic-operations chief in Los Angeles. "There was a feeling of 'let's not come to L.A. this year.' " So traffic is also thinner at movies, restaurants and Disneyland's Space Mountain, as the out-of-towners have not kept pace with the let's-get-out-of-towners, rendering hotels uncrowded and compelling rent-a-car companies, among other profiteers, to restore normal rates. Since fully 70% of those attending the Games are estimated to be local, this almost qualifies as a home-town Olympics...
...grew at a 7.5% annual rate, after adjustment for inflation. In the past 18 months, the U.S. has enjoyed the strongest recovery since the boom that followed the recession of 1949. And at the same time, inflation has slowed. Consumer prices, which have risen at a modest 4.1% annual pace during the first half of the year, increased at a 2% rate in June. That combination of high growth and low inflation is the best economic performance in two decades...
After the goal, Iraq quickly regained their composure and pushed the pace, struggling to regain the advantage. Iraq had been pressing the middle of Canada's defense all night and with seven minutes left in the game, Hussain Saeed Mohamed slipped between the defense off a free kick, set play and beat Lettieri to tie the game...
...poor relations on the U.S. Olympic team, competitors like Rick McKinney, 30, of Glendale, Ariz., and one of the best archers in the world. He has won the world championship twice and the national championship six times. If McKinney should develop a finger blister, the U.S. also has Darrell Pace, 27, of Hamilton, Ohio, Olympic trials winner, seven times national champion and the Olympic gold medal winner in 1976. Last year Pace seemed to have tied McKinney for the world championship, only to see one of his arrows hit another arrow in the bull's-eye and glance...
...Italian lira. The surge has helped to propel American tourists abroad in ever growing numbers. Applicants at the 13 U.S. passport agencies have had to wait up to eight hours this summer just to reach the counter, and clerks have been working six-day weeks. The frantic pace should outstrip last year's, when U.S. travelers made a record 25.3 million trips abroad...