Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meantime, we only hope that relief workers can keep pace with the constant stream of victims. The United States and its allies must provide the effort with all of the resources it needs. Also, while we appreciate the enormous burden it entails, we hope Macedonia and other states in the region will keep their borders open...
...interest in undercutting or exposing her heroine-narrator. The author has accomplished something more difficult than ridicule; she has created a character who has enough flaws to satisfy contemporary skeptics but who also struggles convincingly with the old-fashioned task of being a good person. For all its leisurely pace, Evensong turns out, near the end, to have wasted few words. It concludes with an Epilogue, set further in the future than its opening chapter, that not only ties up loose ends but also dares to be, in these uncertain times, optimistic...
...best-selling 1969 book, On Death and Dying, detailed her now popularly accepted conclusions. The dying, she wrote, go through five psychological stages: denial ("No, it won't happen"), anger ("Why me?"), bargaining ("God, just a little longer?"), depression and finally acceptance. Lecturing and writing at a furious pace, she went on to campaign for hospice care in the U.S., gave countless "life, death and transition" workshops around the world and tried to help babies with AIDS. Her current infatuation with mysticism and the afterlife distresses some in the psychiatric community. Even so, though hobbled by several strokes, Kubler-Ross...
...thing is certain about the century (or even the millennium) ahead. The pace of discovery is sure to be even faster than it is today and the social and ethical dilemmas created by the exploitation of new knowledge even more haunting. Our understanding of the world has deepened at an accelerating rate since the beginning of modern science 500 years ago. Our century, for example, has had the wit to ask how the universe is constructed, how even the tiniest particles of matter move and how life manages to exist in the face of all the odds against...
...shortest skater is second only to the 5'11 Mleczko among the nation's leading scorers. Shewchuk admits that her official height of 5'4 is "generous," but she makes up for her lack of size with her quickness and her ability to light the lamp at a frightening pace...