Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crowd with a melange of calypso and oldies favorites outside Bertucci's, in the heart of Brattle Square. Like a Siren, he lures even the most reluctant pedestrian into a seat on the granite bench in front of him and offers them ready lapse into a summer pace of life...
...reverse such trends, banks acquired securities brokers at a record pace last year. McColl shelled out $1.2 billion for Montgomery Securities of San Francisco. "Today we do almost everything Merrill Lynch does," he says. "We compete with them in investment banking and the brokerage business." Would he like to own Merrill? "We could," he replies, "but it's not for sale, and we are not interested." Then he adds with an alligator grin, "But nothing is forever...
Despite such horror stories, the pace of bank mergers is likely to accelerate as McColl and his rivals battle for market share. "The next five years will make the past five look tame," says Lenny Mendonca, a senior partner at the McKinsey consulting firm. Mendonca says that the number of large national banks could shrink from about 40 today to as few as six or eight shortly after the turn of the century...
...daring film to date. There isn't much talk in Kundun, and what talk there is isn't especially revealing or eloquent. However, this ceases to matter very much as the breathtaking cinematography tells its own story, accompanied by a sonorously haunting score by Philip Glass. Kundun's slow pace may cause occasional restlessness, but never boredom. It's too much of a feast for the eyes to lose its power of fascination, and its poetry of color, perspective and motion lingers long after what's actually said is forgotten. Lynn...
...Early Action Program began in the 1970s and has accelerated over the past decade. More top students are ready to apply to college earlier, having developed their academic and extracurricular talents more intensively than students of previous generations. While there are some students who profit from a more leisurely pace and begin to realize their potential only during the college years or well beyond, the average student applying to Harvard and Radcliffe today is more advanced academically and extracurricularly and may be better prepared for the complexities of college life than his or her predecessors were...