Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some 2,000 sq. mi. of forest--roughly the area of Delaware--have been clear-cut. From the air, the rich coat of the North Woods looks like it has mange. In the past five years, softwoods such as spruce and fir have been chopped down at a pace almost double their rate of growth. "There is no question that clear-cutting was overused," concedes Roger Milliken, one of the most progressive of the large landowners...
...major, Wispelway's cello soared as he tenderly executed the audible and pleasant arc up to the final G of the prelude. Particularly impressive was his rendering of the rocket fast Courante in the second suite. Shallow, Lamaze-style puffs were audible as Wispelwey frantically kept pace with the technical demands of double and triple stopped crotched chords in an actually quite introspective piece...
...virtue of impatience has universal application. When playing golf, the average 18-hole round at a regular pace ought to take three hours. But what inevitably ends up happening is a disastrous four-and-a-half hour round. Guided by the virtue of patience, golfers address the ball for hours rather than simply relaxing and taking a swing. The practice of impatience does not demand an abandonment of prudence and discretion. In fact, it requires just the opposite...
...road, addressing mostly preselected audiences from New London, Connecticut, to Los Angeles. But no national journalists are allowed on her plane. If any of them want to cover her appearances, they have to make their own travel arrangements. And commercial flights cannot keep up with Hillary's pace. Nor does the First Lady often make the national-TV news. Last Thursday she told some 300 Generation Xers at a Rock the Vote rally in Los Angeles that they have a bigger stake in the election than older folk "because we're going to be electing people who will...
Since then, Toyota has Americanized itself at a rapid pace, which accelerated last year after a nasty trade dispute in which the Clinton Administration threatened to slap a 100% tariff on luxury cars like Toyota's Lexus. Shortly afterward, Toyota executives swooped into Indiana to pick a site for the T100 truck plant and sped up the timetable for the new West Virginia factory. Says senior vice president Jim Olson, a 16-year Ford veteran who joined Toyota in 1985: "It will now be very difficult for the Big Three to attack us as the enemy at the border...