Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hostages. Airlift. Blockade. Showdown. As the crisis in the Persian Gulf entered its fourth week, the words used to describe it came almost entirely from the passionate lexicon of conflict and national pride. And with the accelerating pace of events, the path to a peaceful resolution became increasingly difficult to find, let alone follow. The region seemed poised on the brink of war, a prospect made all the more horrible by fear that chemical weapons might be unleashed not only against troops but also against hundreds of thousands of defenseless civilians...
...name only a few. Anthony Vignola, chief economist of the Kidder Peabody brokerage firm, figures that if the recent rise of crude oil to almost $32 per bbl. is not rolled back, consumer prices this quarter will jump at an annual rate of 8.6%, nearly double their recent pace...
Even if rainfall stays at normal levels, current world food production will be difficult to maintain, much less increase. The food supply has kept pace with population growth only because the amount of land under irrigation has doubled in the past three decades. Now, however, agriculture is losing millions of hectares of this land to the effects of improper watering...
Under attack for liquidating its holdings too slowly, which increases the need for cash infusions, the RTC has begun to speed up the pace. Last week Seidman announced the details of a "fall inventory-reduction sale," in which the agency will unload shuttered thrifts and seized assets by the end of the year. Up for grabs will be everything from junk bonds to golf courses to shopping malls. The $50 billion asset sell-off will refuel the bailout process, but it will take its toll on the U.S. by depressing, to some extent, an already weak real estate market...
...best bristled with scoops -- especially during Watergate -- and was written with acerbic flair. It achieved national prominence with searching, provocative coverage that invigorated readers as much as it discomfited the White House and much of official Washington. But in recent years Bradlee, 68, has been easing off his earlier pace, prompting speculation about his retirement and causing open jockeying among his would-be replacements...