Word: paces
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...seat on the board of directors. Since then, the company has announced a number of major changes. On January 30, the company said it would stop selling breakfast sandwiches (in response to criticism that the odor covered up the smell of coffee), slow its rapid pace of opening stores in the U.S., and no longer report comparable-store sales to Wall Street - a sign that the company is serious about investing for long-term growth and not catering to short-term concerns from investors...
...couple of weeks before the show. It's a path the recorded-music business knows well. Long resistant to change, it, too, has finally accepted the need for rehabilitation. The industry's woes have, for some years, been glaringly public. Rising sales of digital music can't keep pace with the fall in sales of CDs: record-company revenues from such tangible products tumbled roughly 6% in 2007, leaving firms with some $19.3 billion in total sales last year, a quarter less than in 1999. The digital market is hardly new, yet it still seems to catch major record labels...
While some have criticized the slow pace of Iraqi political development, O’Sullivan finds it unsurprising...
...Foley—who received a Defense Department commendation in 2004 for his work in Iraq and now serves as the U.S. ambassador to Ireland—said the slow pace of reconstruction was unavoidable...
...ponderous pace of efforts to improve the site may, however, be in keeping with its history. Stonehenge was probably built in three key stages, roughly between 3050 B.C. and 1500 B.C. The identity of its builders, and its purpose, may never be known. Various theories suggest it may have been a place of worship or have astronomical significance. Since Victorian times, it has been popularly linked to New Age beliefs, particularly neo-Druidism - even though archeologists have shown that it was built long before Druidism arrived in England. Still, summer solstice gatherings by New Agers once drew huge crowds...