Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the next two years to help retire the party's $14.5 million debt. The DNC has met all its money targets so far this year, and expects to raise at least $50 million in 1997. But while the flush and comparatively clean GOP continues to set the pace, the Democrats have had to stay ahead of Janet Reno's Untouchables; DNC officials say they will in the next two weeks return another $1.5 million in donations identified as coming from foreign or other suspect sources, bringing the refund total to more than $3 million since the campaign finance controversy...
...suggests that American schools may be slowing them down. Education Secretary Richard Riley says that?s precisely why President Clinton?s proposed national testing standards are so desperately needed. "Our elementary schools are getting better at teaching the basics," he said. "Our goal now is to keep up the pace and make sure that they are learning to these high standards all the way through to high school." But at an estimated cost of $10-12 million per year, the proposed tests will be a hard sell with Congressional Republicans and others who oppose standardized tests...
...credit for that record-setting pace goes to Chambers, an energetic West Virginian with a Kalishnikov for a mouth who plays only doubles when he takes to the tennis court, an extension of his desire to make Cisco into a team. Chambers is relentlessly customer focused and prodigiously paranoid. When Cisco loses a big order, Chambers rings the buying CEO to ask how he could improve...
...else, besides crude puns, does the man of the '90s want? As masculine tastes have evolved from Old Spice to Tiffany for Men and L'Eau d'Issey Pour L'Homme (to name but two of the 10 fragrances advertised in the current GQ), men's magazines have kept pace--so much so that in certain respects, they are becoming hard to distinguish from women's magazines. LOSE THE FAT IN 21 DAYS...THE EASIEST WAY TO LOOK BETTER...POWERFUL LEGS...67 NUTRITION TIPS are some of the cover lines from the June Men's Health, the decade-old title...
Second on Harvard's all-time scoring and rebounding list, Feaster is on a pace to dethrone Crimson legend Tammy Butler '95 in both categories...