Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard was able to stay with the Quakers for the first 500 meters despite a lower stroke rate. Then the Crimson lightweights made their move, as Penn was forced to slow its pace while Cornell, which had fallen behind badly in the first 200 meters, never recovered...
...After about 800 meters, it was clear that they couldn't hold pace," Harvard senior Mike Horvath said. "Penn surprised us last year by hanging with us, and we got flustered. I guess they were trying to do the same thing this year and were hoping for us to make a mistake...
This month, when the 3,000-member National People's Congress, the country's legislature, meets in Beijing to consider speeding up the pace of economic reform, the disparities between the two Chinas are likely to become even more pronounced. One item on the agenda will be the proposed transformation of Hainan Island, now part of Guangdong, into a separate province with the mandate to become a capitalistic special economic zone. Both Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and Acting Premier Li Peng called for further development of the coastal industrial cities and special economic zones, even at the risk...
...winter, we get all the `snowbirds', these old [people] who come' down here in their R.V.s [campers] and drive real low. Spring break is a nice change of pace," he says...
...asterisk next to Jesse Jackson's name had been dabbed with Wite-Out. His win was impressive: a plurality of the Democratic popular vote. But as the evening wore on, commentators and candidates began talking about a two-man Democratic race, as if Jackson were the pace horse of the piece, running to show, not to win. Even the newly anointed third runner, Al Gore, referred to a race between himself and Dukakis, oblivious to the fact that if it were a two-man race, he would be out of it. When Jackson corrected him, Gore, who needs Jackson more...