Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...single male character; Roy Schnieder in Jaws, Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters, and Rod Taylor in The Birds. Here that role is filled by Jeff Daniel, who plays Ross Jennings, an Ivy League-educated doctor who moves his family to little Canaima to get away from the hectic pace of life in the city...
...PACE OF life is slower here. People work hard, yes, but they work with unharried determination. I meet Chris, a man who operates an auto body shop out of his garage...
...Gorbachev has been in power, his every move has been dogged by these two men, shadow members of a strange political troika. Ligachev was the archconservative, unwilling to sacrifice ideological certainties for the risks of change; Boris Yeltsin, the maverick populist, wanting to go further, faster in forcing the pace of reform. At times the two have seemed like Gorbachev's alter egos, the right and left boundary markers on his political horizon. But mostly they have been his rivals, vying to force him off the careful centrist course he has charted for himself...
...million people, he holds a strong power base where he is now free to try his own more radical brand of reform. Even if the party does not split formally, Gorbachev could be left trying to implement perestroika through a rump dominated by moderates unable to keep pace with leftists outside the party...
Mizuno is now stepping up the pace. In February the company began production at a $3 million plant in Juarez, Mexico, that taps inexpensive Mexican labor and exports golf bags across the border. "The U.S. sporting-goods market is four times larger than Japan's," says Masato. "I'm confident that we can carve out a niche." Such assurance is typical of Masato, a flamboyant manager who drives a red 1965 Ford Mustang convertible to work. Says an aide: "He's a fireball...