Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...first decade, the center's collection has grown to include 25,000 titles. The true measure of its achievement is comparative: scholars estimate that only about 40,000 works were ever printed in Yiddish. With these riches, the center has become a whirligig of cultural promotion, keeping pace with a resurgent interest in Yiddish around the world. It runs an adult-education seminar and a student-intern program, and, using Yiddish-speaking actors in Israel, is taping entire novels. This profusion delights Lansky, whose accomplishments were recognized last July by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago...
...race for aid and investment. The competition, however, is hardly one among equals. Hungary, for example, is somewhat chagrined because its slow and steady revolution from above -- parliamentary elections are set for March 25 -- has put it behind Poland and Czechoslovakia in dislodging communists from the government. This pace of change has caused a partial dimming of the country's image as a pathbreaking reformer. And its position, oddly enough, seems to have worsened because of the pro-democracy upheaval in East Germany. Budapest fears that much of the investment it might have expected from West Germany will be funneled...
...deformed; he is merely very short. At 13, he is 4 ft. 7 in., or 6 in. shorter than 97% of the kids his age. But Jonas has high hopes: since he began therapy with human growth hormone three years ago, he has started to grow at a normal pace. The height gap between him and his peers is no longer widening, and it may eventually shrink. Jonas already notices the difference: "Now, because I'm growing faster, I don't get picked on as much...
...said he also looks forward to "getting outof Cambridge and getting a change of pace, andgoing to a place where I was long...
...they learn -- though sometimes at great cost -- that no tyrant can kill or arrest an entire nation. At that point, despots lose the special combination of visible authority and legitimacy that the Chinese call "the mandate of heaven." In 1989 it happened all over Eastern Europe, where the accelerating pace of reforms gave birth to the observation that Poland took ten years, Hungary ten months, East Germany ten weeks, Czechoslovakia ten days...