Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pessimists about American independence further stress the sometimes overlooked fact that land transportation throughout the Colonies is still slow (four days by stagecoach from Boston to New York), and there is not a single bank comparable to the great financial institutions of Europe. "For what purpose were [the Colonists] suffered to go to that country unless the profit of their labor should return to their masters here?" asked the Marquis of Carmarthen in the House of Lords. Edmund Burke made the same point with more sympathy for the Colonists: "The scarcity you have felt would have been a desolating famine...
...under pressure to come to an accommodation. Beirut remained under Syrian siege, its food and gasoline supplies severely depleted, its hospitals filled with the victims of continuing sporadic fighting between right and left. If the end was not in sight, Assad's pressure gamble appeared to be making slow headway. "Middle East crises have a habit of zigging and zagging unexpectedly," cabled TIME Middle East Correspondent Wilton Wynn from Damascus, "but for the moment Assad seems to be ahead of the game...
...fact, the most recent forecasts by the staff of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris suggest that such a division may be coming. The Administration would like to head it off by encouraging the nations with more serious inflation problems to adopt the policies necessary to slow down soaring prices...
...Connell decided, without even informing Yawkey of the details, that considering the circumstances Fingers and Rudi were worth $2 million. The pair would seem to ensure that the Red Sox at least would win the American League's East Division, where a slow start had them six games behind the team that has tormented them for decades, the New York Yankees. When the sale was announced early Tuesday evening, Boston Manager Darrell Johnson said: "We'll show them something in Yankee Stadium." He spoke too soon...
...summer months are traditionally slow for new movies, and this year will be no exception. A couple of things look promising but basically it's time to catch up on things that you missed during the year. You're in the right place to do it. Harvard Square Theater changed hands in the spring and is now run by the people who manage Cinema 733 in Boston. There's a different double-bill every couple of days of recent flicks, the price is right ($1 before 6 p.m., $2 after that), and it's air conditioned...