Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stakes are huge: some $2.4 trillion in annual exports of goods and services. World merchandise trade is expected to expand only about 3% this year, a sickly performance compared with the nearly 6% average annual growth of the 1970s. Protectionism is a prime reason for the slow pace...
Catliff has amassed five goals and two assists in his first two games. Last season's leading scorer, Lane Kenworthy, recorded six goals and three assists--in 15 contests. If he continues at his present pace, Catliff could threaten Harvard's single-season goal-scoring mark of 18, set in 1971 by Felix Adedeji...
...ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." However, this quotation, achieved by melding two different . sentences eight pages apart, misrepresents Chief Justice Marshall's view. Marshall was not saying that courts may invent new constitutional values in order to keep pace with the times, but rather that Congress may "avail itself of experience, exercise its reason, and accommodate its legislation to circumstances...
...they will use caves. On the Missouri River, they will tie up barges and stuff them. The Behlen Mfg. Co., in Columbus, Neb., which makes metal bins, has increased its work force from 350 to 750. Marion Havens, of Greenfield, Iowa, who assembles bins, is working triple his usual pace, rooting a new one every fourth day in some field. They point toward the blue sky like truncated missiles. If only we could fire them toward the Soviet Union, we might help everybody...
...such concessions are unlikely. Even as Gorbachev was renewing his test- ban offer, the Pentagon continued plans to equip B-52 bombers with cruise missiles at a pace that would break the unratified SALT II treaty limits by mid-November. The defense budget passed by the House of Representatives, however, would cut off money for any weapons that would cause the U.S. to exceed SALT II weapons levels. The House also demanded a halt to any nuclear testing above the level of a single kiloton...