Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most U.S. police forces have been slow to respond. New York is the only city that has a full-time art crime detective. He is Robert Volpe, 35, a spare-time painter and sculptor who looks the part: shoulder-length hair and well-worn jeans. He figures that he helped recover art objects worth about $4 million...
...long term. Last week President Carter came to an agreement with Mexican President José López Portillo to begin negotiations between the two governments for American purchases of Mexican natural gas o avert social and economic disruptions López Portillo has vowed to follow a go-slow production policy and not permit Mexico's wells to pump more than 2.3 million bbl. of oil and gas a day (up from 1.5 million bbl. now) for the rest of his term, which ends in 1982. Thus Mexico will not be able to do much to help...
Progress was slow but a legitimate breakthrough occurred at the Greater Boston meet. "That had to bolster her confidence when she hit it for fives and five-and-one-halves there, but even I didn't expect what she did with it at the Ivy meet," Walker says...
...know, probably, there have been many many experiments under way in this country me of which have failed, some of which show promise of success. The one thing about all of them is that they say, 'go slow.' You don't see results overnight and it would be a mistake to anticipate getting results overnight. In GM corporation where we've been taking the lead in the automobile industry in introducing such programs, we've had some pretty good success. Local unions seem enamoured of QWL programs where they've had a taste of introducing and initiating them. There...
...matmen first took on Cornell--which emerged from the weekend second overall in the Ivy League--but were hampered by a slow start. In the three lowest weight classes, Paul Widerman, Rick Keith and Bill Mulvihill--the latter competing with a very sore knee--fell to strong opponents from Ithaca...