Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...itself. Looking outward, Japan sees what it has become since Hiroshima: a source of fury and wonder to Western industries; a pressure point in the U.S.-Soviet staring match; a power without arms. Looking inward, Japan sees old ways shaken and new ones moving at so hectic a pace that the nation's next volcano may erupt not from the quiescent cone of Mount Fuji but from the people themselves, who could be outrunning their...
...which must be paid no matter what the outcome. U.S.-style contingency agreements, under which losers pay no fee, are ethically prohibited in Japan. Finally, despite the relatively low amount of litigation, courts are often backlogged for years because trials move at a snail's pace...
...slow pace of the Madrid talks has provided a fairly accurate reflection of the frosty state of relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over the past three years. The conference began in a chill, eleven months after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As the deadline for beginning the meeting approached, the participants could not even agree on an agenda for their gathering. They arbitrarily stopped the conference clock at five minutes before midnight in order to continue thrashing out their differences...
...toughest test as head of the Federal Reserve. The task: to slow down the growth of money without killing the economy's recovery. The money-supply measure known as M1, which consists of cash and bank checking accounts, has been growing recently at a blistering pace. The key indicator rose at an annual rate of 14.1% to $512 billion during the first half of the year, far above the Federal Reserve's target range...
...back and relax despite his company's achievements. Says he: "We've got an enormously successful operation. Therefore you could be complacent; you could play it safe and not change. All the natural forces in the business pressure you in that direction." But one sign that the pace of the past two years will continue will be the arrival of a home computer, which IBM originally code-named "peanut." This will sell for about $700 and could reach stores in late fall. The machine, fully compatible with the PC, will come with a built-in disc drive...