Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provocative scientific prophet around, people will be able to perform their jobs or shop via television from their homes (if they and their wives can stand it, that is). Despite such present or potential miracles, the business of voting in America-the most important business in a democracy-is slow, cumbersome and primitive. Says CBS President Frank Stanton, who has made voting reform a personal crusade: "If we ran our factories, conducted our communications and nurtured our health at the same rate of scientific and technical advance as we conduct our political affairs, we would still be taking weeks...
...brakes, the Administration feels, will slow the nation's dollar outflow by $1 billion in 1966, thus bringing it into equilibrium-a balance of payments deficit or surplus of no more than $250 million. Whether they will also tend to choke off investments that produce a golden stream of returning profits is another question. Voicing that fear last week, General Electric President Fred J. Borch expressed alarm at the global trend toward "resurgent nationalism" in economic affairs. "Businessmen all over the world cannot fail to be greatly concerned," he said, "about today's mushrooming restrictions on international trade...
Wilcox also anticipated a "slow beginning." "I just don't know how the faculty members will respond," he said...
Individuals can appeal, of course--first to a state board and then to the President, who has appointed a committee to deal with these requests. But the process is slow and rarely favors the registrant...
Lindsay was highly critical of the program throughout his campaign. It had been "slow in getting started, somewhat political, and its energies had been too diffuse," Galbraith pointed out. He added that the program is still very young and "still in the process of getting started...