Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zhao acts in line with his past initiatives and recent statements, he is destined to accelerate the pace of China's plodding reform. In the 1970s Zhao designed policies that transformed huge, inefficient communes into privately-run plots. Three years ago he traveled to Africa, a sign of concern for China's role as an independent global power. If anyone has the right mindset about reform, it's Zhao...
...already intended to buy a car * and went ahead with those plans in spite of Black Monday. Many car dealers now say business is slowing by as much as 30%. Major retailers, who released October sales figures last week, mostly say business has proceeded at the same sluggish pace they were experiencing before the crash. Sears, for example, reported that October sales were up 1% from the same month in 1986, an increase that did not keep pace with the current 5% rate of inflation. Last week the Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate during October inched upward...
...Moscow Party Leader Boris Yeltsin, 56, a nonvoting member of the Politburo and a close Gorbachev ally, reportedly complained that bureaucratic foot dragging was frustrating his reform efforts in the capital and offered to resign. Politburo Ideologist Yegor Ligachev, 66, a leading conservative who has sought to restrain the pace of reform, replied with sharp criticism of Yeltsin's management. Yeltsin is expected to make a speech this week at a meeting of the Moscow party; whether or not he receives a vote of confidence from the group should give a good indication of his fate. A final decision...
...veteran skaters in the man-up situation, Sweeney and Pawloski understand their responsibility to regulate the pace of play. "We have to adapt and set the pace, or slow it up and regroup," said Sweeney, who scored on one of the Crimson's five power plays against the U.S. Olympic Team Sunday...
...13th Party Congress, Deng Xiaoping remains the master of compromise between ideologues and pragmatists. -- A TIME correspondent travels through China and the Soviet Union, comparing the substance and pace of reforms. -- Vacillating negotiators threaten the Central American peace process. -- The Soviets give the green light to more Jewish emigration...