Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their turn, either out of reluctance to live under Israeli rule, or for fear that they might be cut off from remittance checks sent to them by relatives working in the high-paying oil fields of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. All of which caused the refugee flow to slow to a trickle. But for the time being, it will continue, a reminder to the world that Israel has not really removed the welcome...
...last, as to begin to seem normal." Eastern Europe was working itself free of Moscow's grasp; trade between the Europes was eroding the Iron Curtain; ideology on either side was losing its relevance. "As with the conflict between Christendom and Islam centuries earlier," concludes Halle, "the slow churning forces of secular change were transforming the conditions on which the cold war had been based. The cold war constituted one chapter in this long history . . . but destruction had been averted and, with the lapse of time, stability had been restored...
Mercury Montego that replaces the smaller, slow-selling Comets,* Ford Group Vice President Lee lacocca predicted a 9,000,000-car year, barring a strike, which would blow that prospect "sky-high...
Kaiser's seven shipyards built 1,490 cargo ships and 50 baby aircraft carriers before the war was over. This amounted to one-third of all U.S. ships that were launched during the war. Kaiser's principal rule was speed ("There's no money in a slow job"), and one freighter was actually finished four days and 15 hours after the keel was laid...
Grand Scale. When Kaiser needed more cement for his prewar construction projects, he founded a cement company and one to supply sand and gravel. As an industrialist he followed this idea on a grander scale. Because steel shipments were slow, he organized Kaiser Steel at Fontana, Calif., with a $123 million Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan that brought considerable criticism from Congress and Wall Street alike. He dabbled in airplanes, and with Howard Hughes conceived the idea of a ten-engine cargo plane that never got off the drafting board. Later he founded Kaiser Aluminum...