Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures stirred some bipartisan worry among members of TIME'S Board of Economists. Republican Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University now believes economic expansion in the final three months of the year will be relatively slow, though he expects a strong pickup next year. Democrat Otto Eckstein of Harvard foresees a fourth-quarter growth rate no higher than 3.7%, and possibly as low as 2%, v. the third quarter's already disappointing 4%. As a result, Eckstein believes that the economy will need the stimulus of a new tax cut early...
...American population will be over 65 by the year 2000, Comfort sees oldsters developing into a formidable pressure group demanding more sympathetic treatment from society. The group's eventual goal: the commitment of Government research money to retard the effects of aging. Scientists have already found ways to slow the rate of aging in rats and other mammals. Comfort believes the same can be done for humans, so that a person of 70 or 75 would have a body like that of a 60-year-old today. Says Comfort: "Aging is a biological process involving a rate or rates...
...tests can be devised to identify people who are aging unusually fast or slowly and to find out why. "If eating cornflakes or using toothpaste makes us age fast," he says, "we would now have no way of knowing this." What would it cost to develop techniques to slow aging in humans? On a reasonable guess, "one-fifth the cost of the Soyuz space circus plus some time. It might fail (so might the moon landing have done) but it probably will not. What we need to decide is whether we want...
...studies indicate that a 10% hike would have only a "marginal" effect, because the nation still has price controls on almost all of the oil that it produces. A 25% boost would lower real gross national product by .7%, or $9.1 billion, by the end of 1978-enough to slow the recovery measurably...
...bank's incorporation, only ten remain. Such high turnover, quips Eileen Preiss, the only one of the original three executive officers remaining, is the way "we solved the problem of a staff without enough experience." The bank lost many accounts early this year when the inexperienced staff was slow to deal with computer foulups. Even more embarrassing, the bank has actually been accused of sex discrimination by a former teller, Susan Salvia, 23, who claims she was fired because she was pregnant. The bank says Salvia refused to take a new job assignment...