Word: paces
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...down pace, neither team can finish on the break. Referee almost falls into the bleachers...
...many observers agree, never the best use of taxpayer money. And now, with so many states facing major budget crises, it looks like it won't continue at the same pace much longer. California's prisons are so overcrowded and underfunded that a federal judge recently ruled that the state must release roughly a third of its 158,000 prisoners by 2012. The New York State legislature is close to scrapping the draconian Rockefeller drug laws that, by imposing mandatory sentences rather than rehab treatment, have kept many otherwise law-abiding drug users in prison for years. Other states, such...
...prime opportunity to cheaply acquire holdings of strategically important natural resources such as iron ore, copper, oil and gas - commodities China's leadership knows it will need much more of in the long run. In the past month, Chinese companies have bought assets abroad at an unprecedented pace. Aluminum Corp. of China (Chinalco), a major holding company focused on resources, has announced plans to invest $19.5 billion in Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining companies. If completed the deal would be the biggest foreign purchase any Chinese company has ever made. China Minmetals, another state-owned firm...
...Though tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt, named ECAC Player of the Year and a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award this week, continues to pace the Harvard offense, it’s the depth of the team’s attack that will be crucial as the postseason continues...
...world in which The Great Depression played itself out predated the globalization of credit and economic interdependence. Even the worst of the large post-war recessions rarely lasted more than a year. Even at their most inventive, government policy systems are incapable of operating in an environment where the pace of negative change quickens by the week...