Word: paces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are two main theories. The first argues that Brezhnev has been much more upset and angered by the pace of U.S. normalization of relations with Peking than the White House expected-or revealed. As a result, Brezhnev slowed down SALT in order to delay his summit with Carter. According to this argument, the ailing Soviet leader fears that if he visits the U.S. in mid-January, he risks being overshadowed and forgotten in the excitement over the visit of China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao...
...cagers kept pace with the Waves early in the game, but Pepperdine pulled ahead midway in the first half as the Crimson defense faltered. The hoopsters failed to recover from a 17-point halftime deficit as the Californians iced the victory with hot shooting in the second half...
...they became the biggest international borrowers, with a total of $5.2 billion in loans and withdrawals. Surprisingly, many American businessmen do not blame OPEC for raising the price as much as it did. "If you take an 18-month time period," says Carlton Jones, manager of energy analysis at Pace Consultants & Engineers in Houston, "the increase is less than U.S. inflation and doesn't cover the dollar devaluation during that time period. The dollar has gone down more than the price increase." Fred Hartley, president of Union Oil in Los Angeles, declares: "It's our fault, not OPEC...
Though turn-of-the-century sewage control projects provided temporary improvement, they could not keep pace with the swelling population. After World War II, efforts at purification were set back further: detergents and other chemical effluents left the lower Thames covered with foam, literally choking the river to death. Deprived of oxygen, one fish species after another vanished. River passengers became ill from the rotten-egg aroma of hydrogen sulfide rising from the polluted waters...
...second day of play, Fitzgibbons began to hit pinpoint irons but Dales slipped off his pace of the previous round. Dales says, "I just didn't have much of a short game. Spence played really well at the beginning but we didn't have anything to show for it so we kind of fell apart...