Word: paces
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...believe the official statistics, these should be feel-good times in Western Europe. The economy is growing at its fastest pace since 2000, while inflation and interest rates remain low by historic standards and unemployment almost everywhere is falling. Try telling that to Marie Pereira. She sells Baccarat crystal in the fancy Bon Marché department store in Paris, and she's feeling anything but well off at the moment. "Basic things like food shopping are twice or even three times as expensive as before," she complains. "People have much less money at the moment, so they have...
...about him. In fact, given Obama's slim political résumé and drop-dead charisma, his campaign is more candidate-driven than most. It's all about the spectacular keynote speech he gave to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. It's all about the fact that he's--pace Joe Biden--a young, attractive, eloquent and intelligent Kenyan Kansan. (Baseball cap spotted in Iowa later that day: OBAMA '08--ARTICULATE AND CLEAN...
...Pentagon vetted the briefing in Washington to ensure it was "absolutely accurate," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Feb. 2. But one day after the secretive PowerPoint presentation, U.S. Marine General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, conceded he couldn't confirm that the Iranian government shipped the weapons to Iraq. So the bad news was that the briefing wasn't absolutely accurate. The good news: we found out before the invasion...
...those figures—from Lucifer to Macbeth, from Ivan Karamazov to Citizen Kane—who have suffered the consequences of living what was considered by their most eloquent interpreters to be the opposite of a good life. A careful reading of cases like these will show that, pace Tolstoy and the traditional model that he assumed, it is not only every bad life but every good life too that is remarkable in its own peculiar way. The student who learns to reflect thoughtfully on a wide range of such cases, and who learns to pursue...
...volume of books that are going through the scanning,” said Verba. Google has been scanning Harvard’s books at a secret, undisclosed location for the past two years. According to Verba, the scanning process had “not been at a very rapid pace, the digital facility we had being relatively small.” Once the expanded facility is in place, Verba said, “we are going to do a larger number of books.” As of its announcement last week, Princeton is the 12th institution to join...