Word: slow
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Public health authorities and the medical profession in Japan have been slow, even reluctant to deal with alcoholics. The Japanese government budgeted a paltry $90,000 for alcohol research last year, while collecting $3.5 billion in alcohol revenues. In all of Japan, there are only 800 beds reserved for alcoholics and only three clinics specializing in outpatients. Of the 8,000 psychiatric specialists in Japan, fewer than 1% specialize in alcohol and its related problems. Oddly enough, Dr. Katsumi Meguro. director of mental health at the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Tokyo, seems to be unconcerned by this lack...
...command and in some two months he has brought to the board a new flexibility and crispness. Says one staffer: "We can't keep up with him. He's an electric mosquito." The former Textron Inc. chairman roams the Fed's cold marble halls at a slow jogger's pace, thrusting out his hand to someone he does not know and saying, "Hi, I'm Bill Miller." He signs memos "Bill," calls almost everyone at the Federal Reserve by his first name, and works in shirtsleeves...
...meantime, he presses ahead on what is surely the toughest chore of his career: using the Federal Reserve to slow the economy gradually without dipping it into recession. As Oklahoma-born Miller, who is part Indian, puts it, "We want to go through this narrow pass to the wide open space on the other side without an arrow touching...
Neither rain nor snow nor complaints about slow delivery nor public worry about inflation can keep the Postal Service from completing its next appointed round of rate increases. By the end of May, the service will raise mailing costs enough to push some businesses into lifting their prices more and sooner than they otherwise would have done. For all classes of mail, the rise voted last week by the Postal Rate Commission averages 25.5%. First-class postage goes from 13? to 15? (vs. 6? as recently as 1971). The cost of second-class mail for magazines and newspapers will jump...
...Udall, U.S. Congressman from Arizona, suggesting that the Post Office should handle inflation: "They wouldn't solve it, but they'd certainly slow it down...