Word: paces
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recent weeks Obama has abandoned or downplayed his previous commitments on wiretaps, the pace of withdrawals from Iraq, trade with Mexico and Canada, guns, and the funding of his campaign. In most of these cases he has been moving to the center. In all of them he is taking the position most advantageous for his campaign in the fall. Left-wing bloggers, notably Arianna Huffington, have been screaming in cyberspace...
...cohort occupy a unique place in modern Chinese history. Products of China's vigorously enforced one-child policy, twenty-somethings like Mao feel that they've been left to shoulder the mistakes of their government even as they adapt to a society that is transforming at an overwhelming pace. Having missed out on the life guarantees of their parent's generation (job placement and social safety net) they're also alienated from the relative freedom enjoyed by those just a few years younger than they are. "You see my girl here", Mao Ce gestures to his young girlfriend sitting across...
...most revered down some blind alleys. In South Africa, for example, President Nelson Mandela once allowed memories of imperialism to color his views on his country's rampant violent crime, the "encouragement and commission" of which he blamed on white supremacists. In Zimbabwe, Mugabe's impatience with the slow pace of land redistribution led him to endorse the violent seizure of white farms, which quickly caused the collapse of the agriculture-based economy...
...says of the rehabilitation efforts. "But we need time to do it the proper way. At the maximum, two or three years from now people will start to feel the benefits." But as to how many people in Sadr City's streets will respond to the government's current pace remains in question. For two straight blocks in sector 11, where over a dozen buildings in a row look as if they have been hit by a wrecking ball, residents are not so hopeful. Saadi warns: "The government has misjudged the situation in Sadr City. They do not know...
...greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'" Americans risked a similar fate, Kennedy warned, "if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress ... Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future...