Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industrial countries, the situation varies. Inflation has been speeding up throughout Europe and Japan and will be accelerated further by the oil increase. But in the other six summit countries, unlike the U.S., economic growth has been showing signs of revival this year. Now output and employment will inevitably slow as petroleum prices soar. How bad will the recession that has apparently begun in the U.S. become? That depends heavily on whether OPEC can somehow be persuaded to stop the price spiral at its present point...
...piece follows the Graham technique. Two dancers stand on stage, bodies rigid, hands clasped around their waists, expressions stony. One faces two high-backed chairs, back to back, seating two onlooking dancers. The other faces an empty wooden stocks, a dancer behind. The music begins, slow at first but full of potent emotion. Their bodies become expressions of the music...
Alien begins with a succession of long, slow pans through a spaceship, like 2001 without the Strauss. I was rocking in my seat with excitement: what movie would dare to have such a boring beginning if it weren't going to be scary as hell later? Unfortunately, those opening shots set the tempo for the whole film, with the alien's attacks serving as shrieking exclamation points...
Japan and the Western European countries were slow to bounce back from the recession and suffered through a lingering period of sluggish production and relatively high unemployment. By contrast, the U.S. economy rebounded fairly smartly: production picked up, and joblessness fell from its 1975 peak of 8.9% to the current 5.8%. But the U.S.'s solo recovery brought problems. Prosperity sucked in imports, but American exporters found little demand for their goods abroad. Then, too, the nation's dependence on ever more costly foreign fuel increased, lifting the U.S. oil import bill to boggling heights-$40 billion last...
...downturn would slow U.S. inflation and narrow the American trade deficit. It would reduce U.S. oil consumption and thus reduce upward price pressure on crude oil and other commodities...