Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police are convinced that some progress is being made; but it is painfully slow. So far this year, although some 600 apartment robberies have been investigated in The Bronx, only 82 arrests have been made. Voluntary agencies do what they can to ease the plight of the elderly, but the scope of the problem is overwhelming...
...notable achievements of the brief Ford Administration has been its success in selling foreign governments on a go-slow approach to economic growth in order to hold down world inflation. At the economic summit in Puerto Rico last June, President Gerald Ford and the government chiefs of Britain, West Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan agreed that they would follow cautious policies aimed at a moderate annual expansion of world production, say 5%, through 1980. Today it appears that the Administration was altogether too persuasive: in most industrial countries, as in the U.S., expansion has slowed to a crawl...
Aggravating Strain. The upshot: Chase Econometrics, a private research firm, forecasts that economic expansion in 12 major nations will slow, on average, from 5.5% this year to 4.5% in 1977. In Europe, it predicts, growth will slip from an already modest 4.2% in 1976 to 3.9% next year. While such a slowdown would still be a long way from outright recession, it would aggravate already serious commercial and political strains throughout the non-Communist world...
...technicians pay lip service to the original special effects of Willis O'Brien, their disdain for the old stop-motion techniques is thinly disguised. It saddens me that many superb technicians of stop-motion animation have found it increasingly difficult to work. The rationale has been that the slow, painstaking process of frame-by-frame photography has grown prohibitively expensive...
...then down to serious business. The Cardinals wrestle against the Cowboys and your football blood starts on its slow boil. These games are always exciting and bring out the manic fool in you. You spend two hours yelling absurd things like "DECK HIM! DECK HIM!," and the game's inevitable last-second finish leaves you shaking and babbling all night like a refrigerator on the fritz. That night nothing except counting audibles will put you to sleep...