Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vices of beautiful beaches, discos and even golf. There are also a surprising number of Americans, whom Cuban officials wave in through Mexico or Jamaica--no need to get your passport stamped. Even after years of steady growth, the number of vacationers continues to increase 15% annually, the fastest pace in the Caribbean. Tourism has replaced sugar as Cuba's main source of hard currency. That is one reason tourist hotels were the targets of the antigovernment bombings, which caused moderate damage and three injuries...
...mother turned later in the day into a homicide investigation, that the big news about the case in August would be the grudging release of the autopsy would have been called crazy. What, no arrests, charges, indictments, trial? But, as last week's development underscored, the snail's pace of the JonBenet Ramsey murder case continues to defy reasonable expectations...
...went through boot camp in the 1950s or '60s would recognize the place today. Soldiers-in-training have swapped combat boots for sneakers (easier on the feet), fatigues for gym shorts and T shirts. Instead of running in formation, they run at their own pace, to challenge the speedy and avoid injuring the slower ones. On military obstacle courses they can run around, instead of over, some walls. In some quarters the very phrase "obstacle course" is frowned upon as too harsh. For the Navy, "confidence course" is now the preferred term...
...itself. Purists such as ucla's legendary coach John Wooden think women's basketball is more watchable than men's basketball. It's certainly more structured and team-oriented than the helter-skelter N.B.A. game, and that aesthetic has helped the W.N.B.A. attract older fans who miss the traditional pace of basketball. At first look, W.N.B.A. play was somewhat sloppy, but in the past few weeks it has tightened up. Last week in Charlotte, the 7,266 fans were treated to a thrilling game won by the Liberty, 65-63, on two free throws by Rebecca Lobo in the last...
...presidency, he is in the process of a grand expansion, the organizational follow-up to the massive missionary work the church has long engaged in overseas. To gather the necessary capital for it, Hinckley has decelerated the growth of Mormon domestic investments: although still on the increase, their pace is far below that of previous decades, and the church has extracted itself from such previously Mormon-heavy fields as banking, hospitals, private schools and sugar. The church authorities have removed the tithe from the authority of local administrators and pulled every penny of it back to Salt Lake City...