Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year, the Fed has tried to follow a narrow course that would promote the recovery and yet prevent a new burst of inflation. After the U.S. money supply grew at an alarming 12% annual rate in the spring, the Reserve Board tightened its policy. By October, the pace of money growth slowed to less than 2%, and the Fed's tough stance kept short-term interest rates at a steep 8.5% to 11% level...
...Reagan, the Grenada operation seemed to be turning into a political gain at home, particularly if the pullout continues at a rapid pace. With the serendipitous discovery in Grenada of large Cuban arms stockpiles and documents disclosing secret military agreements between Grenada's former leaders and Cuba and the Soviet Union, the mission, which both Reagan and many Grenadians insisted be called "a rescue" rather than "an invasion," seemed easier to justify. Some of those documents were released by the State Department last week with considerable fanfare...
After spending 1982 in the doldrums, the economies of the nations bordering the Pacific are again becoming dynamos. In South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, where factories are churning out exports at a pell-mell pace, economic growth has reached annual rates in the 6% to 9% range, up from 4% to 7% a year ago. Japan is gliding along at a more modest 3.4% rate, but its government has a plan to spur domestic demand. Australia is bouncing back from its worst recession in three decades...
Taiwan. The engines of economic expansion are humming again in Taiwan. Growth is running at a 6% rate this year, up from 3.9% in 1982. Board Member Chen forecast that Taiwan could maintain the 6% pace through 1984 and hold unemployment to a low level...
These are inferences the talented Hui allows the viewer to draw; but the pace is hardly ruminative. Mostly, Boat People motors along with Kung Fu industry: visiting a "chicken farm," where the ten-year-old and his sisters scavenge the effects of recently executed prisoners; negotiating a field laced with land mines, a legacy of the U.S. involvement; gazing unflinchingly as the children's mother impales herself on a hook; tracing the attempt of the children and their benefactor, a Japanese photographer (Lam Chi-cheung), to bribe and fight their way to "freedom," which here is just another word...