Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea is being embraced everywhere. At Maytag's factory in Newton, Iowa, employees do more than keep pace with assembly lines. A single worker may build an entire washing machine subassembly. Then he checks his work with a stethoscope and stamps his ID number on the product. Says Vice President Sterling O. Swanger: "Quality is everyone's business at Maytag...
...class started out with almost 200 students but about a fifth dropped out because of the pace. Most of the people in the class were taking it to get it out of the way, figuring that eight weeks of hell. But a frightening--at least to me--number of people had taken all or part of the course before and were taking it over to raise their grades...
...family: Maureen ["Rebbie"], 33; Jackie, 31; Tito, 29; Jermaine, 28; LaToya, 27; Marlon, 26; Michael, 25; Randy, 21; and Janet, 17.) But with the release of Off the Wall, Jackson's first solo album on Epic in 1979, it became clear that the group's leader was setting a pace that would be tough for anyone to follow. Off the Wall, which came out during the record-biz doldrums, sold 8 million copies worldwide and fielded four Top Ten hits. Those are impressive numbers by any standard, except the one that Jackson has just set with Thriller. "Michael's doing...
...dress in front of a dilapidated service station while Jack exuberantly describes his future plans, and we believe his naive faith in the future. This youthful energy evaporates, however, when Kaplan transports us to the world of the racetrack. Instead of pulsating action, the film sequences assume a monotonous pace, almost as flat as the track itself...
...despite the fact that Pike pulled his starters early and often, the aquawomen were too excited about opening night to slow down the play to the lethargic pace favored by the Eagles...