11.   Cleveland is expected to accelerate the pace of talks with agent Tom Condon, with the goal to complete a contract agreement before the draft begins Saturday.

12.   Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom won EU backing after their governments agreed to accelerate the pace of opening their markets to competition.

13.   Extra memory protein simply accelerates the pace of memorization by eliminating the need for repetition.

14.   Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues are charged with the task of keeping the economy growing without accelerating the pace of inflation.

15.   For the contracting industry, the arrival of a bevy of flush and eager buyers has greatly accelerated the pace of consolidation.

16.   Fortunately, the rain stopped and the players accelerated their pace.

17.   Having the human DNA sequence in hand much earlier than anticipated will significantly accelerate the pace of biomedical research.

18.   Hackworth said that the consolidation of car making operations under him would not accelerate the pace at which GM was already combining and shrinking its white-collar staff.

19.   He ordered the department to greatly accelerate the pace of its work and complete it within two years.

20.   He knows the learning never stops, but also realizes the pace is highly accelerated in the first few years of pitching.