Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fund-raising transgression at the hearings he will chair through much of the summer. Most of the primary witnesses have refused to testify, in fear of increasing their exposure to criminal charges now that a federal task force of FBI agents and prosecutors is proceeding at a much slower pace to investigate Huang and his web of donors. Thompson is limited by law in his scope, dogged by Democrats to expand the probe and pressed by his own party's conservatives to confine it. Meanwhile, key Democratic fund raisers, including Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak, have either fled...
...town out of cornfields north of Washington, replete with sidewalks and gazebos and town squares and the transplanted totems of an easier age. The deep American nostalgia for rural life may owe more to fantasy than memory, but it is a theme that has grown more powerful as the pace of change picks up. At a time when the search for Real Life is becoming a marketing tool, when Coors promotes itself as the Last Real Beer and cotton is the Fabric of Our Lives, a lot of towns are realizing themselves, deciding it is easier to restore an evocative...
...valley bottomland along the Gunnison, Slate and East rivers, FOR SALE signs are almost as common as cottonwoods. Countywide, 13,000 acres of ranchland have been sold for development in the past two years; of the 75,000 prime acres that remain, 17,500 are for sale. Development's pace is fastest at the northern head of the valley, where the funky ski town of Crested Butte is a money magnet. Opulent homes necklace its ridges, and a million visitors pass through each year. Though still rural, the county has a choice: either it finds a way to shape...
While governments have dithered at a pace that could make drifting continents impatient, people have acted. Birthrates are dropping faster than expected, not because of Rio but because poor people are deciding on their own to limit family size. Another positive development has been a growing environmental consciousness among the poor. From slum dwellers in Karachi, Pakistan, to colonists in Rondonia, Brazil, urban poor and rural peasants alike seem to realize that they pay the biggest price for pollution and deforestation. There is cause for hope as well in the growing recognition among businesspeople that it is not in their...
...companies to finance new works, which may run a year or more in cities like Toronto before going to New York. Broadway thus becomes just one cog in a worldwide theatrical engine. Other theater powers are following suit. Two weeks ago, the Jujamcyn chain of Broadway theaters joined with Pace Theatrical Group, a presenter of national tours, to combine production and distribution operations on the Livent model...