Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pleading for "the most rigorous restraint," Johnson asked business and the unions to slow the wage-price cycle. Wage settlements, he said, must be reduced voluntarily from last year's 5.5% average. Where possible, extra costs must not be passed to consumers. On the international side, he urged approval of his program for reducing the balance of payments deficit...
...Peretz said that bureaucratic complexities within South Vietnam's Ministry of Health added to the difficult of COR's work. "They definitely are trying to slow it down," she said. "They consider the children adverse propaganda...
From birth, the "war babies" were reared according to Spock. He told their mothers how to diaper them, how to feed them, and--most important-- how to mold their soft little heads. Spock was clever. The indoctrination would be a slow process, he reasoned in 1946, when he wrote the book. But eventually, he knew he would have a whole generation thinking as he wanted, opposing...
...Viet Nam admirably. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail through the Communist-controlled portion of Laos have flowed the men and supplies enabling North Viet Nam to keep the war going, and Laotian rice has helped keep Ho's warriors fed. The U.S. regularly bombs the Trail to slow the flow. But unlike Hanoi, Washington has been unwilling to violate the ban on foreign troops in Laos and strike directly overland to interdict the enemy traffic southward...
...give a physical focus for student activity, the government is constructing a youth center in the middle of town, and for the past few summers has been inviting French and American student groups like Operation Crossroads to work with local students on the building. Progress is excruciatingly slow, but when it is done it will include a large meeting room, a library, a youth hostel, and a bar. Meanwhile, students converse over their shovels...