Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhausting because she peppers them with endless questions, shifts moods in a matter of seconds and demands that everyone keeps up with her. She admits, "My biggest goal right now is to avoid being judgmental. But I am intolerant of people who don't move at my pace." Says Journalist Pete Hamill, with whom she lived for almost seven years: "I don't think of Shirley as a person who relaxes." Another former lover, Soviet Director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (Siberiade) observes, "Shirley is a missile with self-correction of trajectory and a powerful engine...
...theater is named, keep bursting in with Gershwin themes. MacLaine manages to find a wistful, slightly torchy quality in one unlikely number, If I Only Had a Brain from The Wizard of Oz. For the rest of the evening, however, she pounds out lyrics clearly, but at pile-driver pace, denying herself the time to think out loud about what they mean...
...equal work (principles one through there). Once a signatory has passed the basic requirements, the rating process evaluates how the company has progressed in the areas of education for non-employees, training and advancement and community development (principles four through six). The Sullivan requirements are periodically tightened to keep pace with economic conditions and to promote changes within and external to South Africa...
...last year announced plans to issue waste-ship operating permits before it had set formal regulations for ocean incineration. The agency's pace led to protests. At open hearings in Brownsville last November, more than 6,000 demonstrators, including Texas Governor Mark White, confronted EPA officials. They argued that a spill at sea could destroy the shrimp and tourist industries on the south Texas coast. When the EPA answered that this eventuality was remote, White commented, "No one believed the Titanic could sink either...
...only part of the rhythm section," William (''Count") Basie would say. "I'm a pacesetter." When he died last week of pancreatic cancer at 79, the man from Red Bank, N.J., Kansas City, Mo., and the swing clubs of New York had indeed set the pace for one of the century's most accomplished jazz bands...