Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cosby taught Douglas to learn at his own pace, and not to be overly worried that he was slower than his schoolmates. "He taught me never to give up. It was special because I knew he had the same problem, and when he got tired he never gave up." But Cosby helped Douglas with more than schooling. Douglas accompanied Ennis and a girlfriend to New York Knicks' games, sitting in front of the players' wives. Douglas remembers proudly, "They asked me if I was his son." And then there was the terror. "One morning I woke up with a fear...
...Council of Economic Advisers: "In the 19th century, the frontier of America was moving from agriculture to manufacturing. Today the frontier is going from manufacturing to services and technology, much of which can be exported." While this revolution has been under way since the 1960s, technology keeps accelerating the pace of change and hence the seemingly sudden development of job opportunities in areas such as computer networking...
...Bunting is a continuation of her research at Harvard which currently is building and evaluating an operating system (hopefully to be finished soon) that she designed. She has also done research on the growth of the Web, trying to quantify its staggering sprouting and to design strategies to keep pace with its growth...
...After deadlocking, the Federal Trade Commission in 1993 surrendered jurisdiction over Microsoft to the Justice Department. FTC Commissioner Christine Varney, an expert in the field, says it's hard to apply antitrust law in a fluid situation. "My concern is with the law's ability to keep pace with market conditions in fields that change so rapidly," she says. "Once it's clear a practice is anticompetitive, the issue may already be moot...
...Republican members of the subcommittee, who argued that members could not process the reams testimony and evidence collected on Gingrich in the time allowed. TIME's Tamala Edwards reports that a Republican leadership wanting to put the Gingrich investigation behind them has been helped by the extremely slow pace of the inquiry: "The problem is the subcommittee has asked people to be patient for so long...