Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson was slow to get underway and soon found itself already behind the Lord Jeffs by two goals. Late in the first half, John Wiedemann finally got the visitors moving by scoring on a throw-in play...
...about three billion years of evolution on this planet, and it has been an exceedingly slow, and please remember, an exceedingly painful process. A lot of creatures who arose have been wiped out; there has been a lot of extinction. Things have settled down to a degree by now, just because we have lived together for so long. I'll tell you how slow evolution goes. To make the usual mutation, which means that one has changed just one amino acid in a protein, and make it become the norm for the species, takes, on the average, six million years...
Dual Drive. The two-wheel buzzers have their disadvantages. On very steep hills, the small motor may need help from foot power (two separate drive chains allow both forms of propulsion to work simultaneously). So as not to obstruct traffic, all states that permit mopeds ban the slow vehicles from freeways and major highways...
...Democrats on the board question whether slow is beautiful. They are worried by what they see as a waste of the nation's resources-the jobless people and the factories working at an average of about 73% of capacity. To correct the situation, they expect Jimmy Carter to follow the conventional Democratic policies spelled out in his position papers and in last week's televised debate: more stimulation of the economy, easier money, tax cuts through tax reform (TIME, June...
...losing them, the South still possessed those things that are often thought essential to great literary art: a hot sense of pride and guilt, a feel for land and family, a known way of doing things and, above all, a feeling of shared pain and history. Through the slow days and long nights, Southerners told stories -their own and the one everybody knew by heart: the brave defeat in defense of an ignoble cause...