Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...rationale for accepting a boost: new revenues, said Bush, are a necessary part of any compromise package to cut the budget deficit, and a lower deficit in turn is essential to bring down interest rates and get the economy moving at something better than its current snail's pace. "In the long run," he added, the flip-flop will not hurt his credibility "because what people are interested in are jobs, economic growth. People know this deficit is bad. People know that we are going to have to take some action." Some Republicans nonetheless grumbled that Bush was improving...
...between an anchorman and a correspondent, rivalries for beautiful and ambitious women, and a global sweep, from Vietnam to Peru -- with requisite stops in Washington, Los Angeles and New York. The characters are familiar, and the insights strictly keyhole. But Rather, Brokaw and Jennings could learn a lot about pace and timing from...
...young, the U.S. troops are only an unwelcome tool of American colonialism. Although radical students constitute a mere fraction of the population, their xenophobic views -- blaming the U.S. for everything from the % slow pace of democratization to the country's economic problems -- are winning sympathy from a growing number of Koreans...
...arrived in 1966, the hamlet has used its riverfront location to attract nine casinos since 1986. The town boasts more than 4,000 rooms in such hotels as Harrah's Del Rio and Circus Circus's Colorado Belle. Another 5,500 rooms are being built. However, the frantic pace of construction has strained Laughlin's meager civic resources. The town suffers from shortages of housing, labor and water and must send high school students across the river to Bullhead City, Ariz., until its own school can be built...
...shift toward Pretoria is the skill with which De Klerk has managed his side of the contest with the A.N.C. Since his election last year to replace the autocratic P.W. Botha, he has done more to ease the country's internal conflict than all his predecessors combined. With the pace of change increasing, Mandela and the A.N.C. are in danger of losing the initiative...