Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provided Cambridge with honest, though often-times sluggish government. Because there is no dominant political power, showdown issues are often sidestepped. Only when some sort of full or partial consensus has been reached is progress made, and this is admittedly a slow process. By the same token, it guards against excesses and protects the interest of many of the city's minorities--ethnic groups as well as the city's biggest minority, the "university-oriented" community. In a city as diversified as Cambridge, there is a lot to be said for having the broad representation that PR provides...
...people affected and because they lay a basis for further successful struggles against exploitation, war, racism, and dehumanization. We disagree with other radical left organizations who believe the road to socialism is based on defeats or, at best, Pyrrhic victories. Such defeats can only demoralize and slow down the people. We believe the road to socialism is paved with victories in relevant struggles...
...another President Johnson-Andrew-who, nearly a century ago, described the relationship between a President and an adviser as "a plant of slow growth." Where Bill Moyers and Lyndon Johnson are concerned, the plant has been maturing for eleven years now. Moyers needs Johnson and knows it. But Johnson also needs Bill Moyers: not as a son-figure, not as a no man-least of all as a yes man-but as a quick, incisive analyst and brilliant administrator. In all probability, as long as Lyndon Johnson remains in the White House, Bill Don Moyers will be in charge...
Though the slow-moving Corsican natives have themselves to blame for not moving into the new land fast enough, they nonetheless curse the newcomers -and Paris-for their plight. "This is an island," says one bitter native, "surrounded by the sea and monopolies...
...year, now amounts to a trifling .9% of the developed nations' total output of goods and services. Last week Lyndon Johnson signed a comparatively modest $3.2 billion foreign-aid appropriation, but the U.S. still carries more than its share of aid. Despite nudging from Washington, Europe has been slow to pick up its part of the burden...