Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Bush had little time to ruminate about the forces of history and the balance of power in Asia during his journey last week. The pace was too fast, the ratio of ceremony to substance too high, and there was too much fretting over the Tower debacle back home...
Greenspan seemed determined to maintain that cautious pace. While he and Bush share a long acquaintance and are described by aides as "very comfortable" together, the Fed chairman vowed to continue his efforts to reduce inflation. When Colorado Democrat Tim Wirth noted that the Fed seemed to be caught in the midst of a dangerous "high-wire act," Greenspan solemnly replied, "It is." Unless the Administration and Congress can find a credible way to cut the budget deficit, the Fed's daredevil performance will remain the only act in town...
...city-wide representative to the Congress of People's Deputies, a recently created legislature that Mikhail Gorbachev is counting on to boost his floundering reform drive. Yeltsin's success was a signal turnabout. Sixteen months ago, Gorbachev ousted the Moscow party boss after he passionately attacked the slow pace of Soviet reform. Last week Yeltsin overcame that taint as one of two candidates to survive the emotional twelve- hour meeting called to decide how many of ten proposed candidates would appear on the ballot for Moscow's elected representative in the new body. Thus the Soviet Union's first real...
CHICAGO--Mayor Eugene Sawyer stepped up the pace of his campaign yesterday, buoyed by late poll results showing him closing in on Democratic rival Richard M. Daley one day before a court-ordered primary election...
...also established penalties for employers who knowingly hired illegal aliens, making it much more difficult for them to find jobs and provoking discrimination against job seekers who merely look like foreigners. But the law has not significantly reduced unauthorized immigration. The flow from the South continues at such a pace that the INS is embarking on what literally amounts to a last-ditch tactic: it will soon dig a 5-ft.-deep, 4-mile-long trench along the Mexican border near San Diego, in part to prevent fast-moving cars packed with illegal immigrants from racing across the boundary...