Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretensions, so is David Brown. But because the other actors do not have a clear sense of their characters, the interactions, already hard in so didactic a play, seem forced. Sociologically, this lack of established connection lessens the possibility of social change; dramatically, these less accomplished performances slow the play down...
Then Jerry Jeff sang another slow, sad song relying on a plaintive steel guitar, and lyrics that struck a common chord in all southern hearts. He was singing about being displaced and socially alienated, about wanting to leave the cold, impersonal city to go home to friends, family, farms and lovers...
...waste in the form of spent uranium fuel rods, which are stored in dumping areas next to the plant. These storage areas have now begun to fill up, and the power stations have discovered that it is becoming difficult to find additional storage areas-a problem that could soon slow further development of nuclear energy or cause some power plants to shut down altogether...
...Administration officials, such as Charles Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, fear the growth rate might drop to around 3% in the second half of next year-a pace too slow to prevent another rise in unemployment. Consumers, they think, cannot spend much more on cars, houses and other goods than they are now doing; if a slowdown is to be avoided, business spending must rise more than...
...usually taxed). Businessmen complain that that would inhibit the very investment the President says he is so anxious to promote. Says James L. Moody Jr., president of Hannaford Bros. Co., a Maine food distributor: "The chief incentive to invest in business is to make money. Such proposals will slow down businessmen's investments in the U.S. at a time when countries like the Soviet Union and Japan are allocating more for capital investment...