Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slow Motion. But as Chairman Mills prepared to lead his committee into executive sessions behind locked doors, the White House was ready to abandon hope for a new tax, at least for this year. "I think the boys are just going to stand around the campfire for a couple of weeks," said Republican Representative Herman T. Schneebeli, a member of Mills's committee. "It's going to be a study in slow motion." Ranged against the experts are Congressmen who must face the voters next year; even as Congress voted a record $70 billion appropriation for defense, they...
Progress was slow, since the older boys were excused for harvesting in fall, planting in spring, and boys of all ages took a "potato vacation." Girls stayed home to help their mothers through a pregnancy or the canning season. Yet even though the potbellied stove never quite coped with the Montana winters, only temperatures under 45° below could close the school. "I felt as if each day in school was precious to the children," Miss Blachly recalls, "and that I must fill it to the brim," since a few months each winter was "all the education they were going...
...stodgy progenitor of all agency reporting, established in 1835 by Charles Havas. Used by the Germans for their own purposes, mostly propaganda, during World War II, the agency was forced to start from scratch as a government enterprise in 1944 under the name Agence France Presse. It played a slow, largely interpretive fourth flute to AP, UPI and Reuters for a decade...
...idea is simply to pressure banks into refusing to accept uncoded checks as too slow and costly to collect. So far, the only notable effect has been some informal choosing of sides over the whole question of uncoded checks. Out in Las Vegas, Caesar's Palace was quick to announce that casino customers were welcome to use them as usual. On the other hand, saloon keepers and merchants, who often find that a universal check is made of rubber, are just as eager to stretch the law. "Sorry," cashiers at an A. & P. store in Atlanta told check-seeking...
Despite such signs of investor confidence, many critics consider the leasing companies highly vulnerable to risks beyond their control. Admits President W. Carroll Bumpers of GC Computer: "The independents have to fathom when to slow down leasing of third-generation equipment because of obsolescence." There is little agreement among experts as to when that stage will arrive. While the immediate prospects for the computer-leasing companies seem bright, their profits could plunge, leaving them with a mountain of debt, if the fourth generation of computers reaches the marketplace sooner than they expect. The crucial time will probably arrive...