Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Increasing at a rate of 2% a year, population doubles in 35 years. At 3%, it doubles in 23 years; at 4%, in 18 years. From the time of Christ until the Mayflower colonization, the increase was glacially slow-the world's population took 1,600 years to double itself...
...routine Broadway. Manos Hadjidakis' diluted bouzouki score is slumberously unvaried, and no number equals the appeal of the repeated Never on Sunday. The dancers spin like zany revolving doors and slap themselves like victims in a mosquito plague, and there is never the faintest hint of those teasingly slow, sinuous Greek male dances that seem to be sculptured...
...sold off. Mean while, unemployment is a small 3.6% of the labor force, and industrial production rose in March to end a two-month decline. Certain that the mood represented by rising sales would continue on into summer, Washington economists reaffirmed the forecast they made in January. After a slow first half, they said confidently, 1967 will end with a strong second-half finish...
Under such circumstances, the average Briton may not have lost money under freeze and squeeze, but he has not gained much either. Prices are steady; he can cover his needs, visit a pub, even buy such luxuries as a new television set. But sales of autos and houses are slow because money is tight. Few people will vacation abroad this year because of the $140 limit on money that can be taken out of the country...
...gossip in the city room of a Great New York Newspaper. Who, for example, is Paul Pettibon, the Paris bureau chief with the ego of a De Gaulle and a sense of insecurity to rival that of Charlie Brown's pal Linus? Who is Jack L. Banglehorster, the slow-moving, ruminative foreign editor who feels that his first duty is "to report the same news the opposition papers reported...