Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Impatient with the slow process of getting an anti-abortion constitutional amendment through Congress, Right-to-Lifers have persuaded nine state legislatures to vote to convene a constitutional convention. If 25 more states go along -an unlikely proposition-America's second constitutional convention will be held...
Schwartz lived to be only 52, yet the end was agonizingly slow. There was time for visits to New York City mental wards and pilgrimages to the scene of a second marriage-an abandoned New Jersey farm, where through overgrown fields he wandered, calling the name of a long-lost cat. The badly aged Wunderkind died of a heart attack in a Times Square-area hotel while struggling downstairs with his garbage. The measure of Atlas' biography is that he does not exploit the implications of that curtain scene. With admirable restraint he suggests that Schwartz was a lyric...
...Sadat made clear in advance, the purpose of his trip was not to negotiate a separate agreement with Israel; that would isolate Egypt in most of the Arab world and possibly even lead to Sadat's own downfall. Gravely concerned about the slow progress of pre-Geneva negotiations, Sadat was seeking to persuade Israel to drop all preconditions and come to the renewed peace conference that President Carter has been pushing for. If Sadat should succeed in the talks that lie ahead, a negotiated settlement, after 29 years of war and brink of war, is within the realm of hope...
Increasingly impatient with the slow progress of the U.S. initiative, Sadat began to think more and more about bold ways to break the stalemate. "The Arab-Israeli conflict," he told the U.S. Congressmen, "contains 70% psychological problems and 30% substance." What Sadat wanted was a move so dramatic that it would both shock and inspire the other parties involved to return to the path of negotiations. That could be only one thing, he eventually decided: speaking over the heads of the Israeli leaders to their people about peace, and doing so in front of their own parliament...
...Polaroid says that applications for transfers abroad, once in the hundreds for every job, are now in the dozens. Like many companies, FMC, an international conglomerate based in Chicago, is responding to employee pressure by eliminating many executive transfers around the country. Says a spokesman: "We are trying to slow down the revolving door...