Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America is currently in an ethical vacuum, searching for a new code to replace the tattered shreds of post-World War II moralism. Technological improvements have created a national culture, bound together by a communications network. But America has yet to find a new national ethic to keep pace with the development of this media culture...
...this election year, the anti-Harvard rhetoric directed at Harvard Real Estate (HRE), Inc., is minimal at best, despite the fact that the property sales continue at a steady pace. Since the 1985 election for instance, HRE has sold another seven small buildings, bringing the total number put on the auction block under the four-year old program...
...lesson of almost all action films. But most of them have permitted their heroes to reclaim their honor at the end. The good guys are allowed to think their fall from purity and motive was a temporary aberration. There is no such escape for Eliot Ness. Despite its driving pace, style and wit, this film's pervasive mood is a strange and haunting sadness. The Untouchables is, of all things, touching...
...first decade of occupation, only about 5,000 hardy Israelis settled in the hot, dusty Jordan Valley. But in 1977, when the right-wing Likud bloc came to power, the pace accelerated because the Likud regarded settlement as a means of holding on to the land forever. Today nearly 60,000 Jews live in the West Bank, though 80% of them are city people who have been lured by cheap housing and tax breaks to move into new developments only a few miles from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Probably few of the 12,000 residents of Ma'ale Adumim...
...Ceausescu and his imperious wife Elena, 68, both of whose birthdays are national holidays. Beyond some pointed jabs at Rumania's dismal economic performance, Gorbachev avoided specific charges against the Ceausescu regime. The implicit warning, however, was clear: a recalcitrant Rumania would not be permitted to drag down the pace of Moscow's modernization drive...