Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commercial banks from 12,345 in 1990 to 10,450 last year, has gathered momentum as banks have joined forces to cut overlapping costs, enter new markets and meet domestic and foreign competition. Major deals valued at some $30 billion have been unveiled so far this year, and the pace shows no sign of slowing. The consolidations have helped boost bank profits to a record level in each of the past three years, $44.8 billion in 1994. But it's mostly stockholders who have benefited. "I don't see the savings being passed on to bank customers," says Barry Rubens...
...first is the total cost, which is rising at a pace that is unsustainable: 10% a year right now; even faster in 15 years or so when the baby-boom generation starts to reach retirement and decrepitude. There is simply no way that the current system can continue indefinitely. Although there is nothing magic about the years 1995 or 2002, the sooner reforms are made, the less drastic they will have...
...think it's very hard for people outside an institution to understand what the realistic pace of changing the composition of a tenured faculty is," he said...
...military-base closings and budget cutbacks, it might seem perverse for any community to shut off economic growth. But many Westerners just don't want the pace of their lives to change. Cynthia Hall, who lives outside Albuquerque, New Mexico, cherishes her daily walks in the alfalfa fields on the outskirts of town. Last February she heard that a developer was under contract to buy 150 acres in the area and was seeking to have it annexed to the city so it could be commercially developed. Hall, along with a dozen neighbors, formed the Anderson Field Alliance to block...
...Right now there's a concern that it's [city expenditures] growing at too great a pace," he said...