Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...successful cost cutting in Japan, many companies expect an improvement in corporate profits by the end of the year. This should eventually spark further growth. "Things began to turn toward the end of the year, and the signs have multiplied since then. This is a recovery that is gathering pace and is still being underestimated," says Ian Harwood, director of global strategy for the S.G. Warburg investment house in London. "It won't be derailed...
...Chamber has the pace and characters of a thriller, but little else to suggest that it was written by the glib and cheeky author of Grisham's legal entertainments. His tough first novel, the courtroom rouser A Time to Kill, is a closer match, but there Grisham played by the rules of melodrama: the hero won. Here the winner is something called process, the orderly, unemotional, bureaucratic march through the necessary steps before a convict may be poisoned by cyanide in Mississippi's gas chamber...
...delay in introducing his bill, and his retreat from his radical rhetoric, presented moderate Democrats and Republicans with the chance to define the issue for themselves. Of the competing bills in Congress, two are almost identical to Clinton's in philosophy, differing only in financing and thus the pace at which people would be pushed into the work force. The Mainstream Forum Plan, proposed by moderate House Democrats led by Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma, would put a three-year limit on how long a welfare recipient can stay in a publicly funded job. A G.O.P. bill submitted last November, which...
...complexions, the county gentry with their picnic hampers. There is also a large, thriving musical community in the folds of the Sussex hills. Singers who come as students stay on to buy houses. Performers who have gone on to bigger things return because of the good friendships and relaxed pace...
...drew nearer, few workers were certain of the exact date, but they could detect the quickening pace. Bernard Taylor, 84, was superintendent of a Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas, making PT-17 flight trainers. One day in November 1941, Taylor noted a harried congregation of high military brass outside his plant. Then he was called in by his boss, who declared, "You're in the glider business...