Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many citizens oppose any auction of national patrimony. Government oversight is another perennial issue. Many important decisions about Petrobras are made not at corporate headquarters in Rio de Janeiro but at government ministries in Brasilia. In the past this has led to overstaffing and inefficiencies that could hinder the pace of future growth. "There has to be a change of mentality from being big to being more profitable," notes Ana Siqueira, an energy analyst with Icatu, a Rio de Janeiro investment bank. The best way to do that, it appears, would be to bring in more shareholders. --Reported by Daniela...
Harvard's second scoring drive was more indicative of the offensive pace of the game, since it really was not much of a drive at all. With 4:19 to go in the first quarter, Linden initiated the Harvard drive from the 20-yard line with a 24-yard playaction pass to senior Jared Chupaila...
Though Attorney General JANET RENO still resists naming an independent counsel in the campaign-finance investigation, sources say she is increasingly dissatisfied with the slow pace of her own task force. Reno and Deputy Attorney General ERIC HOLDER are discussing an internal shake-up in order to accelerate the probe...
Another tour-de-force in the big-laughs arena is "L.S.A.T.T. (Lazy Sunday afternoon table-tennis," which, too, uses a restrained combination of auto-play and slice-of-life sampling. Here, the leisurely beat serves to pace the recording of an entire table tennis match that plays in the background. "Noone home" opens with all the signs of people being in the house, and then overlays the beat with all manner of attempted communication (buzzers of every timbre, phones ringing...
...only problem the News Office anticipates is keeping up with the dizzying pace of awards received by undergraduates, Ruder said...