Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tons (equivalent to 25% of the total dropped by both the U.S.A.A.F. and the R.A.F. on Europe during World War II) in more than 26,000 sorties. Most of their bombs are aimed south of the DMZ, where few if any antiaircraft missiles exist to threaten the lumbering, relatively slow-moving attackers. Some 80 of the Strategic Air Command's older D and E models of the B-52, originally designed to haul nuclear weapons, have been converted for Viet Nam duty. They normally carry up to 84 conventional "iron" bombs of 500 lbs. each tucked inside their bomb...
Shifts in Britain's $3.6 billion tobacco industry have bankers and investors doing a not-so-slow burn. It all began when a fight for control of Gallaher Ltd., the industry's second largest company ($940 million in annual sales, 27% of the market), turned into an all-American battle between Philip Morris and American Tobacco Co. With more and more of their industries being bought out by U.S. corporations, Britons were scarcely cheered to see another such move. What bothered them more was the way the takeover was handled. With the aid of two prestigious British financial...
...intensity of her purpose, Julie's killings if understandable, are nonetheless private acts in which we cannot share. Flashback sequences, so purgative and cathartic in Hitchcock, are coldly detached in The Bride Wore Black, existing in a no-man's-land between Julie and the audience; the slow motion sequence is stylistically justifiable only if we interpret Coutard's contemplative panning as emerging from a half-memory of Julie's too personal for us to experience. The last shot of the film also deprives us of the vision we are accustomed to: Julie's final killing is very much...
...proposed was a tax surcharge only; for them, the spending downhold that Congress insisted on came as a jolt. The combination seemed like a jet pilot applying full flaps at the same time he throttles back. What worries the Council of Economic Advisers is, first, whether the mixture will slow the economy too abruptly, and second, whether there is reserve power to be applied in mid-1969 when, projections indicate, the economy will need to be revved up again. The situation, said Warren Smith, the CEA's newest member, "calls for a very sophisticated use of fiscal and monetary...
...controllers and hires Lawyer-Pilot F. Lee Bailey as general counsel, announced that it would start playing everything by the book-a set of rules that controllers often ignore. By spacing planes four miles apart instead of the usual three, the controllers managed to slow traffic by 30%. Because private planes use up only half a runway, controllers usually allow them to land simultaneously with a jet on intersecting runways, a practice forbidden by the FAA. The old rule went back into effect...