Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main difficulty experienced by the Crimson varsity heavyweights this year has been a slow start. Harvard literally has never been able to jump its rivals off the starting line in any race this spring...
...Against Princeton he won both the mile and the half mile, setting a University record in the first event and a varsity record in the second. A few weeks later, against Yale, in one of Harvard's greatest athletic feats, Baker took first in the mile in a strategically slow 4:11. Less than an hour later he ran a 1:48.6 half mile, 0.1 seconds behind Shaw and the third best half mile at that time in the country. Then with the meet's outcome hanging in the balance, Baker went out and won the two-mile run, breaking...
...majority of like-minded congressional conservatives in both parties, Mills coolly turned up a full house. He defeated handily, by 259 to 137 votes, an attempt to make him abide by the cut of only $4 billion that would be acceptable to the White House. Next day, in slow, stressed cadences, the President capitulated on Mills's terms even though the cut will slash into the bone and sinew of Great Society programs he deems essential to assuage America's social ills. Without increased taxes, Johnson warned, "the gates of economic chaos could open...
Thus no real purge has occurred so far, and that other Communist ritual that comes with every change of regime -rehabilitation-has also been slow to start. Dubček released about 450 political prisoners soon after his takeover. But he has yet to review the trials, many of which were rigged, of some 40,000 former prisoners, or to restore to good grace by any official act about 100,000 people who lost their party membership, jobs, pensions and other privileges because of political acts or "unreliable opinions." Such redress as there has been has come from ordinary citizens...
...corporate symbol and the influx of $450 million raised to modernize the creaky 117-year-old company, Western Union's growth rate has been discouraging. Telegrams, which still account for 46% of the company's revenues, were off last year; some modernization programs were slow getting started and, as a result, revenues rose a meager 5%. But Western Union does have some interesting possibilities. One is that, in spite of assets of $741 million, its total common-stock value is about $350 million-which puts it in the range that an acquisitive-minded smaller company could manage. Moreover...