Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the past ten years the payout-the percentage of endowment money withdrawn and used in the budget every year-has not kept pace with the market, as top administrators hoarded Harvard's money for a rainy...
...criminal, that prospect was raised earlier this year as a means of pressuring the Serb president to withdraw from Kosovo. "Krstic's arrest certainly turns up the heat on Milosevic," says Barnes. "The West can see how shaky Milosevic is, and Krstic's arrest will further destabilize him." Its pace may be glacial, but justice has not forsaken the Balkans...
...severe cases so much as the borderline ones--the children who occupy that gray area between clear dysfunction and normal unruliness--who raise the tough ethical issues, both public and private. The pace at which Ritalin use has been growing has alarmed critics for a while now. Some doctors find themselves battling anxious parents who, worried that their child will daydream his future away, demand the drug, and if refused, go off to find a more cooperative physician. Some parents feel pressured to medicate their child just so that his behavior will conform a bit more to other children...
...machines, ranging from two-way pagers to Web-TV boxes that bring e-mail and the Internet to TV screens. That will nearly double the sales of such devices from last year--and the market is just starting to expand. (Sales of home PCs have been increasing at the pace of 23% a year.) According to the research firm IDC of Mountain View, Calif., the market for information appliances will grow from $485 million in the U.S. today to $4.2 billion in 2002, when it will surpass the demand for home PCs. "Computers are still too complicated and too expensive...
...seem excessive to include such leading-edge technology in a consumer-oriented computer. Yet, given the fast pace at which computers become outdated, using such hardware inside the iMac should help it last longer than most in its price range, and therefore make it a better value for the consumer...