Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football games). Attendance per game in baseball has actually dropped by 2,639 fans over the past 20 years. Donald Deskins, a social scientist at the University of Michigan, says the big problem is that baseball simply is out of step with the times. "It's too slow," says Deskins. "It's not action-oriented...
Blood, Sweat and Tears, an American group, played first for a slow hour. The group's sound is saved by its great banks of horns (four horns out of a massive nine men in the group) except when these horn players indulge in their bland, meaningless solos. However, when the drummer latches on to a stirring beat, as on "I Can't Quit Her," the resulting music is very creamy and striking. Al Kooper, the founding father of the group, has left but his place has been taken by a swarthy singer who sways and bends elegantly...
Under the U.S. auto-insurance system, at least 55% of the premium dollar should go to compensate traffic victims. There is a widespread feeling that this is not enough, and there are complaints about soaring rates, controversial policy cancellations and slow payment of claims. Some critics demand more federal regulation, along with a radical overhaul of the whole system. A Senate subcommittee has started a root-andbranch investigation of auto insurers; President Johnson has ordered the Department of Transportation to make a two-year probe...
...news for months, Britain's latest trade figures show that devaluation and Wilson's austerity measures-a bare-bones national budget, tight wage controls and heavy new taxes-have finally started to work. During June, the government announced last week, the country's exports continued their slow but steady increase. More encouraging, imports showed their biggest monthly decline since devaluation, indicating that consumer spending, which had been fueled by fear of higher prices, has finally started to ease. As a result, the country's trade deficit for June, while still a substantial $280 million, was down...
...Feed Itself. Partly responsible for ADB's go-slow approach to loans is the task of getting to know its far-flung customers-and vice versa. To accomplish this, the bank offers technical assistance where necessary, as well as surveys of its findings, including a recent study of food problems facing Indonesia and South Korea. Watanabe's pragmatic belief, which is reflected in such projects as the Thai loan and the Filipino study, is that "the region's first concern is feeding itself...