Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direction from the center of town will put you in the fields and woods of Sumter County. So I prowled for hours on the nearly empty roads-bare flats of resting purple earth; gentle folded hills on which naked hardwoods are swallowed in tall pines black in winter green; slow wheeling buzzards, hawks stalled above like statues of hawks, long crepe ribbons of starlings drifting south. The fact that crucial landmarks from the formative years of a man of present immense world power are spaced round at intervals with no signposts may come to seem trivial in the uninsistent grandeur...
...Guadalupe, spiritual center of the nation. Police estimated that 5 million Mexicans congregated in the blazing sun to see the Pope, with 200,000 more outside the Guadalupe basilica. As the oceans of people cheered and waved yellow-and-white (the papal colors) pennants, the Pontiff began a slow parade across the plaza...
...shortly after World War II. In the '70s, productivity growth has averaged only about half that. Some economists long hoped that the slowdown was a cyclical fluke, caused mainly by the recessions of 1970 and 1973-75 (recessions always hurt productivity because companies run high-powered machinery at a slow pace and keep on the payroll workers who do not have much to do). But the annual report of the Council of Economic Advisers, submitted to Jimmy Carter last week and sent by the President to Congress with a covering letter, pretty well blew away that theory. Productivity...
...then this capital-labor ratio has increased only 1.75% annually. Economists argue fiercely whether the chief reason has been tax policies that favor consumption over investment or business fear that recession and/or inflation will wipe out the profit on new investment. In either case, the result has been to slow the introduction of cost-cutting, labor-saving machinery and, says the CEA, to slash the growth of productivity by half a percentage point each year...
Dartmouth could not stop Curry, as she continued to hit from everywhere on the court. Curry played her finest game this season, demonstrating that she has returned to her old form after a slow start...