Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students admitted from California never doubles from one year to the next, and Exeter is never shut out completely. The number of Harvard sons admitted stays rather constant (although the number rejected is increasing rapidly), and the ratio of public school students to private school students changes at a slow and smooth rate, in the direction of the former...
...familiar surname may have helped to make her shoes and handbags all the rage in Rome. In the same circular way, it may help sell records. The movie? Well, Maria is also Sophia Loren's kid sister, and Italian, French and American producers have not been slow to note the family resemblance...
...year than last. Some U.S. troops have been withdrawn from Viet Nam, and presumably more will follow. ROTC is being reduced in status at some schools. Students in many places are gaining a stronger voice in university affairs. Yet to many young people, the pace of change is too slow. The war, the draft, racial tension and poverty still linger. Each class of incoming freshmen in recent years has been more militant than the last; this year's is expected to be no different...
...monetarist" economists warn that the Federal Reserve Board may already have tightened credit enough to raise a threat of "severe economic contraction." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and Economist John Kenneth Galbraith insist that the restraints are ineffective and that only some form of wage and price control can slow price increases...
Nixon's men themselves seem increasingly unsure about whether their policy is working. Labor Secretary George Shultz said last week that if price rises do not slow markedly in another three or four months, the Administration may have to curb credit and spending still more. The President moved in that direction at week's end by ordering a 75% slash in federal spending on Government office buildings, rivers and harbors and flood-control projects...