Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with four men aboard charged down the ramp. Firing nearly all the way, the men in the Jeep sped toward the DC-8 800 yds. down the dark tarmac. The remaining commandos moved out on foot at an almost leisurely pace. It proved fatal. "They were walking at a slow march," recalled a Western military observer who witnessed the attack. "My first thought was that this was a deliberate diversion. I was sure that a killer team must be climbing up the steps to the airplane under cover and unseen." But there was no killer team. In fact, no returning...
...their old ideas do not work well in controlling that endemic modern problem, stagflation. A stiff dose of Government spending, prescribed by Britain's late Dr. John Maynard Keynes to cure depression, often leads to an inflation high. The monetarist medicine formulated by Dr. Milton Friedman ?take a slow, steady increase of money supply?often produces the economic blahs. The radical surgery of wage-price controls is widely recognized as a palliative at best or, at worst, counterproductive quackery...
...earliest human prints. Only about 15 cm (6 in.) long, but 11½ cm (4½ in.) across?much wider than either those of Neanderthal or modern man?the Laetolil markings indicate a manlike primate about 1.2 meters (4 ft.) tall that probably walked with what Leakey calls "a slow, rolling gait," like a chimpanzee's. Though there were many animal tracks nearby ?including some of knuckle-walking apes?Leakey is "75% certain" that the prints were those of an early ancestor of man's. "The creature," as she calls it (because she cannot tell the sex), was not a hunter...
...kind of instant success a film like An Unmarried Woman can bring has been slow in arriving, and in between those disasters were years of hard work. Though Clayburgh, now 33, likes to think that she just wandered aimlessly through her high school and college years, her father, Albert Clayburgh, a rich Manhattan businessman, tells a different story. "Jill was driven," he says, "always taking singing, dancing and acting lessons. The thing I remember most is her determination and ambition...
...other crooked in the air behind her. Like a drop of oil spreading through cloth, the point of focus begins to color one's perception of all kinds of movement: a jump becomes weight gathered down and exploded upward; one dancer lifting another becomes weight gliding in slow motion, a leisurely delighting in the measure of lift and rest...