Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard, the bastion of the Eastern establishment, has always been slow to adopt innovations, and Radcliffe has consistently been treated as something of an afterthought. Radcliffe's founders accepted Harvard's control in return for its high academic quality; but Baker repeatedly quotes past and present Harvard administrators speaking out against higher education for women; she shows again and again that Harvard has been unwilling to change its traditional structure to help women find a place here. The merger-nonmerger position, Baker argues, allows Radcliffe a superficial independence. Radcliffe controls the Radcliffe Institute funds, but effectively washes away responsibilities...
...close of the Administration's first full week in power, the vaguely defined "new spirit" that Carter had invoked in his Inaugural Address was already beginning to take shape-and not only at banquets. After a transition period that had seemed slow paced and sometimes even wandering in its focus, the new President and his mixed team of Georgia chums and Washington veterans opened for business with considerable flair. Carter obviously meant it when he said during his campaign that he would be a "strong, independent and aggressive President." The new regime in its very first days not only...
...slow, believable way she al lows Carney's realism, his low-keyed contempt for such nonsense, to win her over. It may be a trifle too much for the film to suggest at the end the blooming of, as we now say, "a relationship" be tween them. Spade or Marlowe would have let her go. It may be that Benton is occasionally a trifle too aware of his own cleverness. On the other hand, he has made a first-class entertainment out of material that has defied other modernizers...
...then retreated about halfway back to what it had been in the late '60s. Now, says Kukla, satellite studies indicate that the snow and ice cover last fall increased again to about the level of '71. German Oceanographer Martin Rodewald has noticed a slow, general cooling of the waters of the North Atlantic and North Pacific and an air-temperature drop in the Arctic regions over Canada and Russia...
...annual U.S. business losses of more than $100 million in garbled records, billing mistakes and unreadable bookkeeping entries. W.I.M.A., whose members make pens, pencils and felt-tipped markers, has launched a campaign to battle the epidemic of indecipherable script. The association urges the nation's scribblers to slow down, make their letters open and rounded, cross t's and watch out for the troublesome trio: a, e and r. The time to turn over this new leaf is Jan. 23, National Handwriting Day-which also happens to be John Hancock's birthday...