Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pace at which his administration has gone is slow," King said. "He just got the Appointment Commission together within the last few months. That has cost people jobs...
...Hungary has been experimenting with ways of combining socialism and private enterprise and has a relatively open society. While the economy has been in a slump of late, Gorbachev liked what he saw when he visited Budapest last summer and asked for more of the same, at a faster pace. This message encourages the cadre of younger leaders awaiting the departure of Party Leader Janos Kadar, 74, who has run the country since 1956. "The feeling is that it's time for the old man to go, and some people hope pressure from Moscow will speed things along," says...
...dominoes are not likely to fall in the immediate future, however. Looking at the economy's current performance, TIME's board members forecast a 2.9% growth rate in the gross national product during 1987. That compares with a 2.5% pace in 1986. The board's projection is even more optimistic than the average suggests, since it is based on the assumption that economic activity will pick up as 1987 progresses, ending the year at a 3.8% clip. Says Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota professor: "The winds of change are blowing...
Although Gephardt, 46, is nearly invisible in the polls, he hopes to get off to a strong start in the Iowa caucuses. For a year he has been working at an election-year pace, taking only Sundays off. He has visited Iowa so often -- 27 times since 1985 -- that he has been nicknamed "Iowa's seventh Congressman" (the state has six). The boyish-looking lawyer's penchant for work is well known: after arriving in Washington in 1977, he quickly rose through Congress to become chairman of the House Democratic Caucus in 1984. He was the co-sponsor with...
...deadly pace...