Word: paces
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...refinance, taking out some of the capital gains to buy a car or pay for a vacation. Of course, this violated the first law of economics - that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The assumption that house prices could continue to go up at a rapid pace looked particularly absurd in an economy in which most Americans were seeing their real incomes declining...
...Morning Banana Diet - bananas don't normally sell well during summer, and this year's summer has been especially hot. Still, over the past 4 months, demand has driven Dole Japan to increase its banana imports by upward of 25%, and even then supplies could not keep pace with demand. "In a way this is an emergency," explains Ohtaki. "We've been importing bananas from the Philippines for the past 40 years, but this is the first time something like this happened to us, and we find it very difficult to cope...
...glance, there are still plenty of signs of the good life to which this nation of 320,000 had grown accustomed. The parking lot of Kringlan shopping center in Reykjavík is filled with sparkling Audis, Range Rovers and Mercedes. But inside the mall, bleary, blond-haired Icelanders pace the floor like zombies going through the motions of their former existence. "How can I rest easy knowing that everything I've saved all my life is gone?" asks a red-eyed advertising consultant dressed in a woolly cardigan and slippers as he sits in the food court...
...glance, there are still plenty of signs of the good life to which this nation of 320,000 had grown accustomed. The parking lot of Kringlan shopping center in Reykjavík is filled with sparkling Audis, Range Rovers and Mercedes. But inside the mall, bleary, blond-haired Icelanders pace the floor like zombies going through the motions of their former existence. "How can I rest easy knowing that everything I've saved all my life is gone?" asks a red-eyed advertising consultant dressed in a woolly cardigan and slippers as he sits in the food court...
This is not the first time the clock has experienced technical difficulties. In 1991, Durst had to remove and revamp the clock so it could keep pace with the national debt's $13,000-per-second increase. ("Interest payments on the national debt are becoming the largest federal expenditure," he noted at the time). Before his death in 1995, the amount began accumulating so fast that the last seven digits became totally illegible. At one point, the surge actually crashed the computer that calculates the billboard's numbers...