Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conclusion, I just want to offer encouragement. If you can maintain the pace for an entire section--complete with smiling whenever the teacher ends a sentence--soon everyone in the class will think that you are sucking-up to the teacher for a good grade, and a general annoyance will be virtually ensured for all. Thank...
...epic and demands, "Vyasa, which of us has invented the other?" That is art at its most self- aggrandizing. Yet how indeed does man come to comprehend anything beyond his immediate world if not through the artist? The Mahabharata is studded with such observations and moves at a pace leisurely enough to allow audiences to ponder them a moment -- but not too deeply -- before being caught up in the next fable, the next tapestry brought to life. If not always intense or profound, the result is in the end hypnotically satisfying...
...Such a pace will not be easy to sustain, however. Mexico and Brazil are overburdened by debts that threaten to crush their economies and throttle their ability to export. Even the stronger Asian NICs face perils ranging from political unrest at home to protectionist barriers abroad...
coxswain (cox): the little person in the rear of the shell. He or she steers the shell, keeps the rowers informed of their progress in the race, and controls the pace of the shewll by calling for power strokes and the sprint at the end. Coxswains must weight at least 99 pounds (for women--125 pounds for men). If they are less than that, sand bags are carried to bring the shell's weight up to that standard...
stroke: the most important sweep in an eight. The stroke sits nearest the coxswain and sets the pace for the entire boat by determining the rate of strokes per minute. Usually a shell will row around 36 strokes (28 for as head race) a minute but pick up the pace near the end of the race during the final...