Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assignments at the Bolshoi; when she did appear, her name was left off the printed program. Similarly, when her recordings were played on the radio, her name was omitted from the announcer's list. Says she: "I would listen to myself being obliterated." Slava adds: "It was like a slow-motion plan against us. Step by step. Already, our names could not appear in newspapers. My recordings were not played on the state radio." When he performed with Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, only Richter's name appeared in the next day's reviews. Rostropovich concerts were canceled everywhere. "I request engagements...
Cuing the string section: "Like an airplane pilot. Instead of landing 'Boom!' pilot comes landing so slow . . . so slow . . . all of a sudden wheels are on the ground...
World population growth-and how to slow it-continues to be a subject of great controversy. The planet's poorest nations have yet to find effective ways to check their population increase-at least without restricting citizens' rights and violating such traditions as the custom of having large families as insurance in old age. India's new government, for example, has abandoned coercive birth control procedures, even though the country, with a population of 635 million, is growing by a million new people per month. The U.S. National Security Council has said that runaway population growth...
...arguing against each other." Because the job of the Council is to look after the public, Vellucci points to the necessity of not taking any risks which might endanger the community. "When you hear people talking about red ants, insects and possible spills and accidents, you have to go slow," Vellucci says...
Scientists would rather not go slow, however. And the discovery made last spring by a group of scientists in California involving a new gene for producing insulin angered a group of Harvard scientists who were working on the same project but who lacked the facilities to perform similar experiments, illustrating the competitive nature of the field. Scientists in the Harvard laboratories uttered bitter sentences when asked for a response to the California discovery. "The only reason we couldn't get those results was because we didn't have a P-3 facility to clone the gene," one scientist said, adding...