Word: paces
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...unhurried way. Why hurry when the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll has you ahead by 10 points and your favorability rating on the rise? Obama didn't have to wait for anyone to hand him a baton. He just set off two years ago at a steady pace and has run his own race ever since...
...analysts admit that most of them failed to predict how fast oil prices would drop. Just a few months ago, some were saying oil might reach $200 a barrel by year's end. "The analysts have been quite surprised by the pace and volatility of the decline," says David Fyfe, senior oil analyst for the International Energy Agency in Paris, which as a rule does not predict oil prices. "The volatility has been quite marked...
...should the United States government bolster aid to the developing world in the midst of the worst disaster since the Great Depression? First, it’s a chance to earn some respect internationally. Over the last eight years, American aid flows have done little more than keep pace with inflation despite promises otherwise. Second, collaboration at this time will set the stage for the systemic changes needed to reform the global economic order so that today’s crises—including credit crises—can be avoided in the future. Right now, brewing in the legislatures...
...endowment returned 8.6 percent for the year ending June 30, growing to $36.9 billion—the largest endowment total in higher education. Many other wealthy universities—including Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT—have seen their endowments grow, albeit at a slower pace, even as the stock market has crashed...
...convincing halfback. The on-field action becomes increasingly well-choreographed and edited as the film progresses, as if Fleder himself was in the process of learning how to stage and film a football play. The early sequences of Davis on-field are cut at a furious and ultimately disorienting pace, with the camera so close to the action as to obscure individuals. Thankfully, Fleder slows down a bit and zooms out during the climactic on-field sequences later in the film. Football fans will be pleased as well with the accuracy of the football terminology and the true-to-life...