Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent swell in popularity for the sport may be traced to positive word-of-mouth, particularly among women in the Class of '96, Martinez says. The number of club members swelled to nearly 60 last year, and so far this fall has kept pace with approximately 50 players, according to rugby co-captain Chandra Harrell...
That could slow down the light-speed pace of the information revolution. There is hardly a company in the industrialized world that hasn't tried to boost productivity by moving work onto computers. Some 70 million Americans -- including more and more schoolchildren -- already spend part of their workday at a keyboard. When the so-called information highway gets built, they could spend even more of their days and nights hunched over glowing screens, bodies perfectly still except for their fingers flying over the keys...
Picture the ideal U.S. economy. It would grow at a steady pace but not so fast as to ignite inflation. Unemployment would fall as companies created hundreds of thousands of new jobs every month. Banks would have plenty of cash and be eager to lend it. And, best of all, these happy conditions would last...
...they also said they would have liked him to hire more minorities, fill vacant city positions and heighten the pace of community development...
McCullers intended the play to be a tragi-comedy, but her attempt to blend genres results in an unsteady pace and mood, and leaves the audience unsure how to react. The play begins as a romantic comedy, featuring sappy dialogue between the lovers Mollie (Bess Wohl) and John (J.P. Anderson). Their pasts, however, are anything but sweet; John's wife left him, and Mollie married and divorced the same abusive husband twice. Then enter Mollie's ex's mother, Mother Lovejoy (Jill Weitzner), the Southern playwright's requisite aging Southern belle, and her dowdy daughter Loreena (Tanya Krohn). But even...