Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-dressed woman toting a shopping bag brimming with gifts. "Come on, ma'am. Can't you spare me something? I got to have some food, lady. I'm out of work." Frightened, the woman clutches her bag under her arm like a football and quickens her pace. Demar follows for a few steps before giving up. "My God, it's just awful," the woman says afterward. Demar offers no apologies, explaining with a slur, "You gotta get their attention...
...list of 20th century presidential failures." Are you serious? Here is a President who has been able to bring about a domestic- policy revolution: the top tax rate is down from 70% to 28%, inflation has been licked, and the economy has galloped ahead at a record pace for 59 months...
...additional 90,000 tons are expected, thus ensuring Ethiopia enough food through Christmas if some of the hungry are put on three-quarter rations. Relief workers are racing to distribute food. Rebel attacks and logistical problems have cost valuable time, however, and in the past few days the pace has quickened. Last week three transport planes left Europe for Ethiopia and are now airlifting food from Asmara, near the Red Sea port of Assab, to Mekele. The European Community, which organized the operation, eventually hopes to deploy ten planes. "The airlift is vital," says Priestley. "But 700,000 people...
Consumers may at last be ready to start curbing their spending. When the Christmas shopping season went into full swing last week, retail sales were lackluster despite boisterous promotion and discounting. At many stores the growth of revenues is not even keeping pace with 1987's inflation rate of about 5%. Sears reported last week that its November receipts rose only .7% over the same month in 1986, while J.C. Penney showed 4.3% growth. "People are looking more than they are buying. There is a level of concern and nervousness that wasn't there last year," said Mark Shulman, president...
...stampede to beat the cutback, lovers nervously pace in waiting rooms of municipal offices Monday through Friday, waiting their turn before robed magistrates. One Vienna registrar's office performs up to 17 ceremonies a day, each lasting 30 minutes. Says a harried clerk: "You can't rush those poor people through. They have a right to a little music and a nice speech on their most important...