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HALF PACE [5 records]

Record 1 2011-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Track and Field
DEF

A track-team member who sets a fast pace to induce competition to spend energy early in a long-distance race, to the advantage of a teammate.

CONT

A front runner, of course, does not have to lead the entire race. The intention is to create a diversion and attract dangerous rivals in a fast start to burn them out while a teammate runs at his pace at the back of the pack ready to take the lead in the second half of the race.

CONT

O’Mara, who served as a pace-setter or rabbit this summer for Moroccan world mile record holder Said Aouita, posted a time of 3 minutes 52.21 seconds.

Key term(s)
  • pace setter
  • pace-maker

French

Domaine(s)
  • Athlétisme
DEF

Athlète qui prend momentanément la tête d'une course en peloton et lui imprime un train soutenu, de manière à favoriser un ou plusieurs concurrents.

CONT

«Pour cette course de 50 km, j'ai demandé à Paul Turpin de servir de lièvre à Guillaume Leblanc pour les 20 premiers kilomètres.

OBS

Il s'agit d'un coureur jumelé à un coureur d'élite et entrant dans une course de longue distance, habituellement un marathon, au niveau du peloton de tête pour établir le rythme que le coureur adoptera pour l'emporter ou établir un record.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Problems
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The problem of persistent hunger is not limited to Nepal. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) reports that more than 850 million people around the world suffer from hunger and that the millennium target of reducing that number by half by 2015 will not be met without stronger commitments and an accelerated pace.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Coopération et développement économiques
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Le Népal n’est pas le seul pays aux prises avec le problème de la persistance de la faim. Selon l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO), plus de 850 millions de personnes dans le monde souffrentde la faim et l’objectif du Millénaire, qui est de réduire ce nombre de moitié d’ici 2015, ne pourra être atteint si des engagements plus solides ne sont pas pris à un rythme plus soutenu.

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Problems
CONT

At its current pace, Nepal will not achieve its millennium objective of reducing the proportion of hungry people by half by 2015.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Problèmes sociaux
CONT

Ainsi, en dépit de l’augmentation nette des recettes de l’État entre 1990 et 2005, les données agrégées mesurant la faim au Népal montrent peu d’améliorations sur la même période : le pourcentage de la population souffrant de la faim a baissé de seulement 2 % – de 49 à 47 %.

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plans and Specifications (Construction)
  • Architectural Drafting and Tools
  • Industrial Design
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
CONT

At this point in the client/team relationship, a sufficient visual language should have been developed to the point of common understanding. The lead designer should immediately implement the necessary changes and, upon client approval, formally declare "Design Freeze" (Design Freeze is ABSOLUTE and cannot be changed by anybody but the lead designer. Any and all recommendations beyond that point will be duly noted but not implemented in the current version of the design without the expressed approval of the lead designer.) and begins writing the Visual Design Spec.

CONT

GM's goal is to turn out new cars, trucks and sport wagons at a record pace. Currently the automaker is trying to complete 21 future vehicle programs, such as the H2, in just 24 months from design freeze to Job 1, half the time GM took in the past.

CONT

This graph shows that a computer which takes 6 years to introduce from design freeze will be using memory which is at least 8 generations old by the time it enters service.

OBS

as opposed to Konstruktionsstandarderfassung in the CL-289 program.

Key term(s)
  • freezing of the design

French

Domaine(s)
  • Devis, cahiers des charges et plans (Construction)
  • Dessin architectural et instruments
  • Dessin industriel
  • Techniques industrielles
OBS

design freeze review / réunion décidant du choix de la conception définitive.

Spanish

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Record 5 1988-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

Interest rate options trading at the ME [Montreal Exchange] has set an impressive pace. A total of 215, 119 option contracts... were traded during January-June this year, up 20, 2% from the first half of 1986.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

La négociation des options sur titres de créance à la Bourse [de Montréal] continue de progresser de façon impressionnante. Un total de 215 119 contrats d'options (...) a été négocié pendant les six premiers mois de cette année, soit une hausse de 20,2% par rapport au premier semestre 1986.

Spanish

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