Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After hitting five of its first six shots, the Crimson looked like it would keep pace with the hot-shooting Peahens, who scored on their first five possessions. But with the score deadlocked at 11-11, the turnover bug struck Harvard once again, and St. Peter's embarked on a 25-5 run over the next nine minutes to open up a 36-16 lead with 6:49 left in the first half...
...publicly displayed bravado--There's plenty of room for both of us! he declared--he was moving swiftly on two fronts. He turned to the Justice Department for antitrust relief, and he started looking for an exit strategy. So while the district court in Washington moved at its glacial pace to determine whether Microsoft had violated the public trust, Netscape scampered at Net speed into AOL's $4.2 billion embrace. Hum a dirge, friend, and light a candle to your info gods. Netscape, we hardly knew...
...technological revolution that occurred when Sarnoff introduced television. Still there are programmers and producers with great passion for the medium, and we count ourselves among them. But now these broadcasters have had to embrace other media as well--cable and the Internet--to avoid being crushed by the furious pace of technology...
...Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. During World War II, Bechtel, in addition to its shipyards, built bases and ran plants that modified bombers and rebuilt jeeps. At the same time Steve built a top-secret 1,600-mile pipeline through the Canadian wilderness to Alaska, under primitive conditions. The pace left him so fatigued that in 1946 he briefly retired. But he would not be on the shelf long...
What characterized Trippe thereafter was an uncanny ability to pace his airline's growth with the range of the airliner as it slowly evolved: first crawling from island to island across the Caribbean and into Mexico, then extending to Central and South America...