Word: paces
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...economic rule called Okun's law. First mooted by economist Arthur Okun in 1962, the law (it's really more of a rule of thumb) says that when the economy grows, it produces jobs at a predictable rate, and when it shrinks, it sheds them at a similarly regular pace. It's a labor version of how the accelerator on your car works: add gas, go faster; less gas, go slower...
...Barth also said the pace was taxing, with married post-docs with families often staying past midnight...
...residential colleges and the Yale University Art Gallery will continue as planned, though, as will the design and site clearance for two new residential colleges. Levin also wrote that faculty recruitment in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences would proceed at a much-reduced pace, but he did not specify the number of new professors to be hired in this year except to say that it would be “imprudent” to decrease the overall size of the faculty. Yale will continue to conduct searches for researchers specializing in neuroscience, cancer, and cardiovascular disease...
...rritu. Each concerns a group of strangers connected by life-shattering catastrophe, their fragmented lives eventually drawn together under one sweeping narrative. While Arriaga’s films have always impressed, Iñárritu’s direction set them spinning at a frenetic pace with only their own centrifugal force seeming to hold them together. Directing his own work for the first time, Arriaga reveals a stillness at the center of “The Burning Plain” that one wishes had appeared in his earlier work. For any director to make sense...
...What analysts really want to see from Project Impact, however, is a faster pace of implementation. "The biggest hurdle facing Walmart is the speed with which they can roll this out," says Feldman. As more Project Impact stores pop up, the existing stores appear worse by comparison. For example, while the merchandise at the Project Impact store outside of Philadelphia really speaks to that particular market - there's tons of Eagles and Phillies gear - at one regular discount store outside New York City, Minnesota Twins and Seattle Mariners pajama pants wasted away on the racks. There were plenty of associates...