Then their pace flattened out into a straight, modestly upward line.

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And at the coda, he doesn't fade out, instead opting to invent a whole new song — picking up the pace, crying out "California Dreamin', " rising to a falsetto.

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Chery's vehicle assembly line runs at a rather slow pace, churning out one car every 120 seconds compared with half that at the best North American plants.

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Henry Ford is remembered for his innovative ideas which led to a faster pace of turning cars out in the market.

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Still, the pace of growth coming out of the recession has slowed.

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As it stands, Comcast already offers a pretty standard MoCA-based AnyRoom DVR setup, it's rolled out the Pace-built X1 as its first next-gen DVR in some areas, and is dabbling in IP crossover with the AnyPlay transcoder.

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Since the opt-out, the pace of negotiations towards a new CBA has been sporadic and inconsistent.

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By its own standards, then, last year's pace of expansion was nothing out of the ordinary.

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The Obama administration has become so concerned about the slowing pace of new drugs coming out of the pharmaceutical industry that officials have decided to start a billion-dollar government drug development center to help create medicines.

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So money keeps pouring in at a pace faster than it is going out.

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