Last week, Ford announced that the 2012 Focus Electric would be the pace car at the Richmond 400, making it the first all-electric pace car to ever lead the field for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
Henrik Stenson looked set to set the first-round pace as he stood six under through the 15th, but he bogeyed the 16th and worse was to follow at the last.
After the calm, confident pace of the first half, the second half feels relatively rushed (though here I am suggesting that 154 minutes might not be long enough).
The first development is the incredible accelerating pace of change that has overtaken every industry over the last two decades.
But for the remainder of this year, growth is not likely to match the spectacular pace seen in the first three months.
In congressional testimony, Bernanke said the economy figures to grow at a pace of between 3% and 3.5% over the balance of 2006 and 2007, slower than the 5.6% pace of the first quarter of this year.
Gross domestic product growth fell below economists' 3.2% forecast and well off the robust 5.6% pace of the first quarter.
U.S. equities traded narrowly Friday morning on word the economy grew at a slower pace in the first quarter than economists had hoped, according to a Commerce Department report, setting a gloomy tone on Wall Street as the week winds down.
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Sacramento surged ahead 37-25 after the first quarter with a frenetic pace that often left the Lakers' frontline in the backcourt.
The latest figures show it grew at an annual rate of 5.3% in the first quarter of 2012, the slowest pace of growth for nine years.
Last year, the U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace during the first part of the year and then growth slowed dramatically.
In all, home starts were almost 35 percent higher than in the first quarter of 2009, the fastest annual pace in eight years.
The machine was the first to operate at "petaflop pace" - the equivalent of 1, 000 trillion calculations per second - when it launched in 2008.
Those analysts estimate that earnings increased 5 percent in the first quarter and will pick up their pace through the rest of the year.
Crocker, who beat Phelps to win the world title in Barcelona and took the world record from him at the same time, wanted to take charge from the start and went out fast down the first length, turning inside world record pace at the 50 in 23.59, more than half a second clear of the field.
In complete contrast to the opening 45 minutes, the second half opened at a energetic pace with Teggart registering the first shot on target for the game after 49 minutes.
The buying has accelerated all this month, a pace not seen since the first quarter of 2009.
"Europe's debt crisis is the first factor to pull down exports, and the pace of decline is striking, " said Masayuki Kichikawa from Bank Of America Merrill Lynch in Tokyo.
Arsenal began and finished the first half at a brisk pace, but in between Portsmouth dominated proceedings.
If they didn't fight at quite the pace of their first fight, it wasn't for the lack of effort.
There were a few wobbly moments for Hamilton as he struggled to turn his pace through the first sectors into a complete lap in qualifying.
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Stricker and Baddeley kept pace through the first half of the rounds to leave all three men deadlocked with nine to play before Woods stepped up a gear.
Even so, the drooping real-estate market, combined with declining demand for Chinese exports in Europe and elsewhere, pulled back China's economy to an 8.1% pace in the first quarter of 2012, the slowest growth since the spring of 2009, when the world was in recession.
Treviso demonstrated from the off that they intended to play with pace and width but from the first scrum Leicester began to butcher the home pack and their forward power laid the ground work for the victory.
The match started on an all-time pace Murray took the first set in a tiebreak, and Djokovic did the same to win the second set, and it appeared we were on pace for five hours and another gooey rhapsody of praise.
The Scarlets started at a startling pace, as from first-minute possession on the halfway line the ball was spread across the three-quarters to Stoddart, who burst a tackle before showing the pace to make it to the line.
But new data out this morning showed that in the first quarter the economy continued its fall at nearly the same pace as the last three months of 2008.
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