Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sustain its crackdown for very long. They fear that once the state of emergency is lifted, the drug traders will be back in business. However, John Phelps, a U.S. drug-enforcement official in Colombia, believes that if the government's war on drug traffickers continues at its present pace, the mafia's ability to mass produce and distribute narcotics will be crippled. Certainly, President Betancur has much of the population behind his efforts to stamp out the drug trade. A Colombian woman may have best expressed the attitude of many toward the mafia. A few days...
Some 90% of U.S. households already have a color TV, but many people are retiring the old set to the guest room and getting one of the new-generation machines. Last year consumers bought an estimated 14 million color TVs, and the pace of sales jumped another 26% in the first quarter of this year. Videomania is bringing a windfall to discount retailers like Lenny Mattioli, who sell equipment for as much as 25% less than department stores or specialty shops. Mattioli's American T.V. stores have increased sales from $900,000 in 1970 to an estimated $160 million...
...implemented major reforms, including abolition of the death penalty, dissolution of the feared "state security" courts, and an expansion of prisoners' rights. But a public outcry over rising crime (burglaries are up 25% since 1981) and resistance among penal administrators have slowed, and in some cases, reversed the pace of liberalization...
...week they were started anew by White House Press Spokesman Larry Speakes. Immediately after the banks raised the prime rate, he told reporters, "We have been asking the Federal Reserve Board to allow sufficient monetary expansion to assure noninflationary growth. Although the economy has been growing at a healthy pace and inflation remains at a low level, it appears that the money supply is not accommodating real economic growth...
...following service in World War II. While rather striking changes have taken place in pre-medical and medical education, they have been over-shadowed by the "Revolution in Biology" and the advances in behavioral sciences, economics and applied mathematics. Medical education simply has not kept pace with these changes and has at best fitted them into the curricula in a haphazard, piecemeal fashion...