Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stark account of an epidemic that devastated his people during the winter of 1912. "Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken," he laments. Pauline Puyat, born around the turn of the century, picks up the pace with a fanciful tale about one of the survivors, Fleur Pillager, a young girl | who grows to inhabit the book as the central symbol of endurance and revenge. Fleur is also an embodiment of a tribal mythology that includes resurrections, encounters with spirits and lake monsters. By contrast, Pauline, a "skinny...
Williams said that mistakes were bound to happen when "complex" work--like landscaping the football field-sized commons--is done at an accelerated pace. He added that the University was trying to correct the problem but did not want to act too hastily...
...work. Cost: up to $400. Says Stern: "The chances of substantial results are only one in five, a large investment for a reasonably low chance of real cosmetic benefit." Moreover, if the applications are discontinued, the new hair disappears within a few months and balding continues at its previous pace. Says New York Dermatologist Stephen Kurtin: "The biggest resistance to minoxidil is not that the results may be only fair, but that it is a lifetime commitment...
...pace is just one problem creating "a crisis in law deaning," says Frederick Anderson, who recently resigned as dean of Washington's American University Law School after just three years. "There are too many constituencies," he complains. Students expect the dean to be a sounding board for their concerns. The university administration may balk at requests for funding. Meanwhile, the faculty tends to regard the dean as a peer rather than a supervisor, someone who implements policy but does not make...
...Chairman and his five fellow board members boosted the discount rate because they feared that the economy might be overheated enough to speed up the pace of inflation. The Fed became particularly concerned a week and a half ago, when a new employment report was released. While it showed that the unemployment rate climbed from 5.3% to 5.4% during July, largely because of a surge in the number of teenagers entering the work force, the figures also indicated that the economy had created 283,000 jobs in the month, a sign of strong growth. One other worrisome sign appeared last...