Word: pace
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Board of Economists expects the cost of living index, which has been rising at a 13% rate for months, will be going up at a pace of 9% or a bit more next December. The economists admit, however, that they and almost all the other experts have grossly underestimated inflation's staying power in the past several years. Cracks Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources, Inc.: "I have been predicting the inflation rate for maybe 20 years, and I must have got it right about three times...
Princeton Theological Seminary, considered among the best Protestant seminaries in training preachers, requires three courses on the subject. One covers enunciation, pace, voice production, posture and similar techniques, and is taught by a layman trained in speech. A second analyzes the construction of model sermons from the past. The student learns to mine Bible commentaries, boil his message down to a single sentence, then write out a well-organized sermon. In the final course, students in groups of twelve deliver sermons and criticize one another's-performances...
...months, the price of tractors in rural Thailand has fallen 20% as fuel has become scarce and expensive. Prices of water buffaloes, which do not consume diesel fuel but do produce free fertilizer, have soared. Some Thai officials are rather relieved that their bureaucratic bungling has stalled the pace of industrialization. Says one official: "If we had been more successful, Thailand would be in much bigger trouble today...
...game got off to a fast start as the Crimson and the Chiefs traded break-away layups. and the pace never slackened...
...Johnson and Ellen Hart also shined at Saturday's eclipse of UNH. Johnson tossed the shot 42 ft. 10 ins., more than eight feet farther than her closest competitor. Hart, who was injured playing for the Ivy champion soccer team earlier this year, slid by pace-setting Crimson cocaptain Kat Taylor and a UNH runner in the last lap to win the two-mile...