Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaping lucrative profits during an era in which the big institutional players would seem to have all the advantages: research, resources and speed. While individuals control nearly two-thirds of all stocks, or about $2 trillion worth, institutional investors turn over the remaining third at such a rapid pace that they account for 80% of all stock transactions. Private investors are much more likely to sit tight with chosen stocks. But the more active individuals are finding their own tools and tricks. They now cut the cost of commissions by ordering through discount brokers, follow obscure companies through a growing...
Euripides' tragedy, taken here at a wickedly fast pace, follows the fierce, vengeful exploits of the god Dionysus (Peter Becker). Disguised as a man, he has come to the ancient city of Thebes to humble and destroy those who have scorned the power of his father Zeus...
...known California condors left in the wild; the remaining 27 are in captivity. And in 70 years of trying to save the whooping crane, the population has grown from a low of 15, in 1941, to just 170 birds. Nor can deletions from the endangered list begin to keep pace with the new additions. At the moment, 449 animal and plant species remain listed in the U.S.; 37 of them were added in 1987 alone...
...these flaws stem from an abundance of ambition, from Turow's attempt to wrest every conceivable implication out of the story he has constructed. Given the breakneck pace of Presumed Innocent, the surprises that keep piling up even after what seems an untoppable conclusion, no one is likely to complain...
...first sustained period since World War II, the same frustrating experience is affecting millions of American workers, from steelworkers to grocery clerks, airline pilots to meat-packers. A prime reason: over the span of the 1980s, wages have been lagging slightly behind inflation, even at today's comparatively mild pace of about 5%. Between 1980 and June of this year, for example, the average weekly earnings for U.S. workers increased from $235 a week to $309. But after adjustment for inflation, including a dramatic peak at the beginning of the 1980s, that paycheck actually slid backward over those years...