Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are a lot of balls in the air at the same time," said a State Department official last week, talking about the quickening pace of U.S. diplomacy in Central America, and indeed there were. Vice President George Bush visited El Salvador and demanded in unequivocal terms an end to the political murders being carried out by right-wing extremists. Henry Kissinger, along with eight members of the bipartisan presidential commission he heads, was in Mexico and Venezuela gathering fact and opinion for the report that is scheduled to go to the President in early January. U.S. Special Envoy Richard...
...master contracts broken, picket lines crossed. Today union workers are often confronted with a no-win ultimatum: accept a pay cut or lose your jobs. Unemployment in these industries is high because of intense competition and slow growth. Even though the economy is now generally expanding at a robust pace, unions have not regained their former bargaining muscle...
...truly narrated in Bicycle Rider (Harper & Row; $9.95). Abetted by Ed Young's exuberant illustrations, Author Mary Scioscia raises Taylor from obscurity to role model. Her descriptions of turn-of-the-century black life in rural America never moralize; perhaps that, even more than the headlong pace, accounts for the most emotionally satisfying cyclist's story since Breaking Away unreeled...
Carroll, a senior, led the team in scoring last year with 15 goals and 27 points. She has tallied eight scores already this year and is on pace to break the single season goal-scoring record which is held by her left wing Diane Hurley. That is, if Landry doesn't shatter it first...
...Crimson's legs carried them to five sweet victories in the running events against the sluggish Eagles, erasing the better memories of a squad that only broke the wire twice against the fast Cadets in its opening meet. Amy Simon set the pace for the harriers' winning the 1500-meter after a 4:37.4 long one-man show. Next, Patterson raced 55 meters over the hurdles in a winning 8.5 seconds...