Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for a tuneless bomb ("Hell No!) and two slow love songs that haven't a funny line in them, the songs are lively and clever, but spoiled by extremely unimaginative choreography. One step to the right, kick, one step to the left, kick, one step to the back, kick ... gets dull. However, "The Comic Strip", was evidently choreographed by Bryna Rifkind (as Joy Juice), a Lesley junior who has been in two previous Law School shows and has her bumps and grinds down...
Nixon has taken a deliberately go-slow approach to the nation's problems, and he has yet to produce anything resembling a full legislative program. He can move abruptly at times, however. He announced his plan to end Post Office patronage without consulting the congressional postal committees. While he had first counseled against haste in filling the more than 100 sub-Cabinet jobs still vacant, he ordered a speedup before leaving for Europe...
...take notice. For legislators who were already skeptical of Sentinel, time to do anything about it seemed to be running out. Since the first appropriations for construction and pro curement were approved last year, this year's defense budget might be the last opportunity to halt or slow the undertaking...
Such rare setbacks do not slow Benelli's frenetic pace. Somehow he even finds time to promote a favorite cause: helping to wipe out illiteracy in underdeveloped nations by upgrading the educational programs of Catholic missions. Last week he flew off to the Ivory Coast to dedicate a new seminary in Abidjan. The trip was expected to take him to other African countries on still another act of service for Paul VI: exploring a possible papal visit to that continent later this year...
...strengths. The 62-year-old chairman is one of Washington's most astute politicians and a master at wringing consensus from the diverse personalities among the seven Federal Reserve governors and twelve presidents. No one doubts Martin's courage. When politicians were unwilling to raise taxes to slow inflation and narrow federal budget deficits, the board did the job by restricting money. Then Martin calmly absorbed the resulting criticism, most notably after the "credit crunch" of 1966. To blame the Federal Reserve for that, says Arthur Okun, who was Lyndon Johnson's chief economist, is "like scolding...