Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weighty compact. Typically, the nations' delegates were apt to speak not of "free trade," but of "freer trade." In the smudged lexicon of economic diplomacy, "freer" meant less free, not more free. The term indicated that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade Organization, a project which, in the somewhat startling words of Sir Stafford Cripps, "had never before been attempted except at the tower of Babel." At Havana...
...their errors on the locker-room floor. He wanted four men, not just two or three, to get down fast under the basket after Macauley had snared a rebound ("I can't blame you, Ed. I've coached you to save your strength by coming up slow"). Then, after another Hail Mary huddle, they were back on the floor, and now their famed controlled fast break was really working...
...weight of water above it. As the waves sweep in from the North Atlantic, it records them all-big & little-on a strip of paper. Dr. Deacon studies the strip at his leisure. The ordinary visible waves do not interest him much. What he is looking for are long slow "swells," their crests 30 seconds apart, that cannot be detected except with the wave recorder...
Cancer fighters long ago reconciled themselves to a long war of attrition. They do not hope to find a miracle cure, but they do expect their present slow progress to continue. In Atlantic City last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, one scientist cracked: "The progress of cancer research depends on how fast mice reproduce." (Usual breeding rate: one litter every 20 days...
Would they be? He doubted it. Some textile manufacturers, said he, even plan higher prices for next fall while business is relatively slow at both wholesale and retail levels. "Manufacturers frankly admit in many cases that they are not going to reduce prices until they have to, and that they would rather curtail production if necessary to maintain the present high level of prices. There is little evidence that manufacturers are trying to reduce costs or prices. This is the stuff out of which booms and busts are made...