Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failed to meet state standards. In an eleventh-hour effort to save the school, the district two years ago used federal money to buy a computer learning program called SuccessMaker, developed by the Computer Curriculum Corp. of Sunnyvale, California. The software allows individual students to advance at their own pace through reading, math and science lessons. After spending as much as an hour a day at their terminals, the students produced average test scores 50% higher than before; that helped persuade officials to keep the school open last year...
Director Phillip Noyce deserves credit for the easy confidence of his pace, his quick way with the telling detail. In this movie, unlike some others one might name, the lies ring true, and, at least for the length of its running time, absorb you in a conscientiously constructed fictional world...
...pace of takeovers today already rivals the most frantic years of the '80s. So far in 1994, companies have announced deals worth $171.6 billion, nearly 50% more than those of a year ago. At that rate, 1994 would trail only 1989 as the most merger-filled period on record. "The deals have just begun," declares Martin Sikora, editor of the trade journal Mergers & Acquisitions. "The story of entire industries is being rewritten...
Singers like Levine's spacious pace. Ekkehard Wlaschiha, the excellent Alberich, says that "to sing this music fast, you have to be Superman. Levine fulfills the tempi and he gives you time to phrase -- you can better form a musical arch." Adds Manfred Jung, a properly servile Mime: "It's no secret that the orchestra plays more quietly if the beat is not fast...
American Home Products made a surprise $8.5 billion bid for American Cyanamid, as the global pharmaceutical industry continued its breakneck pace of consolidation in the face of impending health reform. The proposed hostile takeover would be one of the largest in recent history...