Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the past ten years, TIME has vastly expanded its printing operations in order to keep pace with rapidly rising readership round the world. In 1959, when circulation was approaching 3,000,000 we were able to serve our readers with five printing plants in the U.S. and four abroad. Since then, our circulation has grown to 5,300,000, which requires no fewer than 15 printing and distribution centers round the world. In the U.S., we have plants in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Atlanta, Dallas, Old Saybrook, Conn., and Albany, N.Y. Abroad, the load is carried by Paris, Tokyo...
Lunar Receiving Lab (LRL), where the Apollo 11 astronauts are spending their postflight quarantine, teams of scientists are trying to put together bits and pieces of the lunar puzzle. Much of the work proceeds at a slow, painstaking pace. Last week, some NASA geologists seemed almost apologetic about their progress. "I've never been so frustrated in my life," complained Mineralogist Elbert King, the LRL's curator. "We've been working for years to get the lunar samples in our clutches. But I was unable to find a single mineral that I could immediately identify...
...companies unwisely kept on piling up stocks of goods even as sales were falling; they then had to liquidate quickly, and the result was a steep drop in production-and the "mini-recession" of 1967. An encouraging sign this year is that inventories have been closely keeping pace with sales, and businessmen-having learned from the past-are not overstocked...
...many patrons of the horses base their handicapping figures purely on speed figures. These losing Lennys and weeping Walters more often than not end up holding tickets on outclassed horses. The West Coast, traditionally a haven for speed handicappers, becomes a financially regarding turkey shoot for many skillful pace handicappers from the East during the winter months...
...familiar Joe E. Lewis refrain by the end of the meeting. "I follow the horses, and the horses I follow.. . follow other horses." )Damon Runyon made Jules Fink and his colleagues famous by calling them the "speed boys." It was a mis-moniker. They were actually brilliant pace handicappers...