Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Department is afraid of unevenly taxing its faculty as student interest fluctuates from year to year. As students have of late gravitated en masse towards American government, for example, faculty specialists in this field have had their hands full. Obviously, faculty hiring could never keep pace with random shifts in student interest. But if the department finds a particular subfield oversubscribed one year, excising the 25 or so lowest-ranked students--only a handful of whose theses would be in the oversubscribed field--is cruel and unusual punishment...
...West German has met with much criticism for the rapid pace with which he has pursued reunification, and political opponents have suggested that he is overeager to on go down in history as the father of a new Germany...
...always do. I passed people and kept up with my running partner, who was aiming for a really fast time that, in my infinite cockiness, I had thought I could also achieve. After a few miles, I realized that I would not be able to sustain this pace and settled into a more manageable speed. For the next three hours and 20 minutes, I would knock off mile after mile, battle fatigue and pain--force my body to keep running even when it was screaming to stop...
People have asked me what I think of during the four hours I am racing. To run well requires intense concentration. Every minute of the race I have to monitor the way my body feels and make sure I am holding a steady pace. When my soles start to burn, my body starts to dehydrate and a seering pain rips through my legs, I have to keep telling myself that I did not run miles and miles through snow, rain and wind to wimp...
...women to their all-male precincts. But that is just part of their problem. Fed up with hazing deaths, boozy parties, vandalism, rape, sexual harassment and acts of racial and ethnic intolerance, many schools are cracking down on fraternities and sororities -- or simply abolishing them. "They haven't kept pace with the times," says Stan Levy, vice chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The attitudes of the Greeks are of an era that has long passed...