Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this reason that the cataloguing must continue, and at a rapid pace. The sooner the items can be returned or at least accounted for the closer a longstanding wrong against America's native peoples will come to being righted...
...before Columbia scored on Friday. The last time the Crimson posted four straight shutouts was in 1987, when the team opened with seven consecutive blankings.... The Harvard record for goals in a season is 69, set in 1981. Less than a third into the season, the Crimson is on pace to break it.... Harvard might be seeing double today against B.C. Eagle co-captains Jessica and Allison David are identical twins. IVY STANDINGS OVERALL IVY Team W L T PCT W L T PCT Cornell 3 2 1 .583 2 0 0 1.000 Harvard...
Medicine, he discovered, was too unimaginative to hold him. "To quit medicine to become a writer," he once wrote, "struck most people like quitting the Supreme Court to become a bail bondsman." Yet the medical-school years gave him "a fund of experience and a sense of pace. Things happen fast. I still think it's true that any sense of narrative pacing on my part comes out of the emergency room." Indeed, in 1974 he wrote a movie script about his emergency-room experiences but got no takers in Hollywood. Years later, Steven Spielberg took a shine...
...emergency-room pace seems to have governed all Crichton's working life. "Whatever the word is that's the opposite of lazy," says Gottlieb, "is what Michael is." He has written 24 books and directed seven movies--including Westworld, Coma and (based on his own novel) The Great Train Robbery. He mastered computers in their nascent stage and wrote one of the first texts on information technology (Electronic Life, in 1983). He ran a software company. He designed a computer game. He wrote essays for Wired, the hot computer magazine, even before it was hot. He collects modern...
Citing the pace of the job and the desire to spend more time with his family, White House counsel Abner Mikva said Wednesday he will resign on Nov.1, after less than a year on the job. "Mikva was brought in to bring the administration through this year of hearings," reports James Carney in Washington. "He's done that, and he's probably just wiped out." Replacing the 69-year-old Mikva will be Vice President Al Gore's chief of staff, Jack Quinn. The transition should be a smooth one, says Carney: "Quinn is ideal for the position...