Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nowadays Smith is finding a lot of company--a trend that could bring her typing days to an end. The slow pace of tea-sipping academics is running into conflict with the financial demands of a growing business...
Terri Weber's last conversation with her son Pace took place just as his dream of becoming an Air Force pilot was taking off. But she heard something besides excitement in her son's voice. "Our planes are having a lot of mechanical problems," Pace told his mom from his Air Force Academy dorm last June, four days before he was due home on his summer break. His plane's engine had unexpectedly conked out in mid-flight, forcing the instructor to grab the controls and make an emergency landing. "Sometimes it's scary," Pace said over the phone. "When...
...this environment that 20-year-old Pace Weber, a senior cadet, called his mother last summer and confessed his apprehension about the plane. "Since Pace was a little boy, he focused on airplanes and astronauts," Terri Weber says. "Getting into the Air Force Academy was something he wanted since junior high." Pace, who had spent 17 hours in the T-3, was flying last June 25 with his instructor, Captain Glen Comeaux, 31, when their T-3 sputtered during a turn at about 500 ft. It quickly entered a spin and exploded in a fireball just after hitting the ground...
...really no race at all, is one of many on our life journeys. We are not in it to beat everyone else, but instead to improve upon ourselves. If we should stumble, perhaps it is because our laces were untied or we needed to move at a different pace. Whatever the case may be, let's accept the challenges and move on because before we know it, this part of the journey will have passed...
...Every Ramadan, the Islamists step up not only the pace but the ferocity of their killings," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer says, adding that this year has been even more bloodthirsty than usual. Victims have been burned alive, hacked to death with machetes, had their throats slit or been mutilated...