Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...among academicians and trade unions. In part this may be because Hanoi has ruled with a lighter touch than Beijing. Says Tran Phuoc Duong, the American- educated rector of Can Tho University, deep in the Mekong Delta: "Something has happened. There has been a lot of internal relaxation. The pace of change has taken people by surprise...
With the arrival of James Bryant Conant to the presidency, a scientist who disliked the College's leisurely pace, Harvard began to move away from Lowell's ideals. Conant admired the intense, research-oriented German colleges, and introduced the "up or out" system, which gave junior faculty approximately eight years before they were either tenured or dismissed. The system has existed ever since...
...session training before the Saturday races, focusing much of its practice time on building up and holding their racing cadence at 34 strokes a minute. A slow cadence had cost the Black and White the race against Princeton two weeks earlier, and Radcliffe was still having problems keeping the pace up in a headwind...
...Walesa stumbled badly when he admitted publicly for the first time that he wanted to be Poland's President and proposed that elections be held as soon as possible. "I confirm," he responded cryptically but clearly to a question about his candidacy. "It is necessary to speed up the pace of reform and demolish the old structures...
...Mazowiecki. While the Prime Minister was in Warsaw making policy and winning headlines, Walesa has been running what often seemed a shadow government from a second-floor office near the Gdansk shipyards that were his springboard into history. In recent weeks he began criticizing the government for the slow pace of reform. Says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences: "He is having to share a stage that was once his alone, and he doesn't like...