Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of an increasing emphasis during the Brezhnev years on the production of consumer goods, Soviet auto output has multiplied from 350,000 cars in 1970 to 1.2 million last year - nearly as many as were turned out in Britain. The growth rate is certain to slow somewhat; last fall Moscow announced that during the next five years it will be redirecting $228 billion into agriculture from other investment programs, including the one for the auto industry. Nonetheless, auto production is expected to reach 2.1 million cars a year by 1980, about equal to U.S. output...
...optimist might think that Rosovsky's black ink hints of an end to rising tuition, room and board fees, but it's probably wiser to take a more cynical view. Although officials predict the rate of increases will slow down, no one sees an end to the yearly price hikes...
...Corelli into complex string masterpieces. Szeryng, the Polish-born virtuoso, and Second Fiddle Hasson demonstrate great authority within Bach's polyphonic ranks. Their counterpoint in the double concerto is superb, as is the accompaniment led throughout by Neville Marriner. One quibble: Szeryng's treatment of the slow movements tends to be brooding rather than introspective...
Though the new medications made it possible to release noncontagious patients from quarantine and isolation, politicians and the public were slow to recognize this. It was not until 1969 that the government of the fledgling state of Hawaii took the final bold step of abolishing isolation-in effect, flinging the prison doors wide open. The patients at Kalaupapa and at Hale Mohalu, a hospital and treatment center in Pearl City on Oahu, were free to leave or to come and go as they pleased...
...slow, heavy field" said Crimson general Joe Restic. "We didn't look like that the first day of practice. Condition can do a lot of things--I think of Cornell last year...