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Word: paces (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gray is a doctor, not an author, and his writing occasionally wanders into verbosity. But the pace of his storytelling never lags. As a doctor, Gray had access to both the rich and the poor, seeing more facets of the Saudi culture than a diplomat might. The narrative skips around in time as the author tries, sometimes confusingly, to cram all of three years of experience into 300 pages; he shares dinner with a Bedouin tribe, attends a royal wedding, and spends a great deal of time in conversations with a wide range of Saudi patients and acquaintances, from poor...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: A Far-Off Land...An Alien Tribe | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

Harvard officials have said that the new guidelines could significantly change--either slow or speed--the pace of such research at Harvard. The University now receives about $5 million annually from corporate research contracts, in addition to about $100 million from the government that is handled according to guidelines established...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Rules | 4/14/1983 | See Source »

...killed with a pickax, you know. I imagine some day John Carpenter will make a movie of it." Emily Mann, the play's director, is alive to both the passion and the ambiguities in each man's argument and, by staging the piece at a ferocious pace, demonstrates that the drama of ideas can be the most exalted of blood sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rising Above the Murmur | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...sophomore Rob Hawley (one goal) have been dangerous on the attack so far. But attackman Steve Bartentelder (even with two goals Saturday). first team All-Ivy last season, and a pair of All Ivy honorable mention midfielders. Steve Voelkel and Brendan Meagher, are behind last year's scoring pace...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Anything But Relaxing: Women Triumph, Men Fall | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...Reid, adding, "We had good control of the conditions." Although Brown jumped to an early two-seat lead, the Radcliffe heavies pulled even at the 500-meter mark. Brown sprinted at the 1000-meter mark but couldn't maintain its speed as the Black and White stepped up the pace in the final 30 strokes to vanquish Brown by three seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe's Light and Heavy Crews Take Season Openers on Charles | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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