Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until a couple of months ago, Ford had reason to hope he would go into the election with the economy a decided plus. By hewing to conservative, grow-slow policies, he had done much to lift the country out of its worst post-World War II recession. The Consumer Price Index has been steadily coming down, from a disastrous 11% in 1974 to a merely awful 9.1% in 1975 to an encouraging 5½% this year. Yet Ford's hopes were frustrated by a lot of discouraging statistics...
...growth than at present is not likely to generate much more inflation as long as so much of the nation's manpower and machinery is underemployed. In fact, faster growth might well lower inflation in the short run by increasing productivity. Says Jasinowski: "Carter would not accept the slow-is-beautiful, let's-be-satisfied-with-4%-growth view that the President seems happy with...
...year. Back then, stock prices rose on the crest of a robust 9%-plus economic growth rate. For a while, stock analysts were happily forecasting an "upside breakout" that would lead the market to a new alltime high above the January 1973 peak of 1051.70. Though business began to slow in April, economists in and out of Government remained convinced that it was just a temporary lull. Investors' expectations remained high, and the Dow hovered around 1000 through most of the summer...
Gajdusek, 53, of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md., found the cause of a puzzling fatal degenerative brain disease called kuru, which long plagued the Fore tribe of New Guinea. The agent responsible: a previously unknown kind of cell invader, dubbed a "slow virus"-in this case, transmitted, during cannibalistic rites. Such viruses incubate in the body for years, may be linked to other severe diseases of the nervous system, such as Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), and perhaps play a role in aging...
...language of modernism, of course, is the mobile. The first to make sculpture move, Calder liked "the idea of an object floating-not supported. The use of a very long thread seems to best approximate this freedom from the earth." The movement, created by touch or air, may be slow or fast, ponderously deliberate or fluttery as an aspen, but it always has the purposed yet unpredictable grace of nature itself...