Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, businessmen are profoundly disturbed by the disagreement between the White House and crusty, conservative Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, who is widely respected in the business community. Fearing stepped-up inflation, Burns wants to slow the growth of the money supply. Carter's liberal economic advisers argue that too tight a rein may send the economy into a tailspin...
...Amico, 48, with the slaying. The alleged cause of the killing: a quarrel over botched repair work he had done on Treglia's sidewalk. > Park Slope was a well-to-do neighborhood of elegant three-story brownstone mansions until their owners began moving to the suburbs. The area's slow decline was partly arrested in the 1960s when middle-class professionals began renovating many of the houses, including one that was bought by Lawyer Hugh Carey. Even after he moved to the Governor's mansion in Albany in 1975, Carey kept the house in Park Slope in the family. Last...
...believes this mayhem is unnecessary is Richard Turner, a former stock car racing driver who is now a police official in Hutchins, Texas. He runs a driving school specializing in the act of the "slow chase." His three-day course, already taken by more than 750 officers from Texas, Florida and Kansas, consists of six hours of class instruction (usually in a converted saloon near Dallas) and 18 hours of driving on a course with turns known as Serpentine, Lollypop and T-Bone Alley. Turner emphasizes calm, smooth movements and no tire-squealing maneuvers. "Think slow," he tells students. "Make...
...ancestors. All told, during a decade-long Leakey has found more and better pre-man and early man fossils than any other anthropologist. His work has helped upset many held ideas on evolution and has forced science to write a new sce nario for man's slow progress from ape to Shakespeare's "paragon of animals," Homo sapiens...
Stanley Flink, Yale's director of public information, said yesterday, "The job freeze is to slow things down fast, while we search for equilibrium of our income versus expenses." Flink added, "This is, of course, a temporary move but it is firm and effective...