Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bumpy field, a bouncy ball, several sets of "bus legs" and an unseasonably hot day combined to slow down the usually explosive Crimson...
...progress under the existing system is too slow, too symbolic rather than substantive, too subject to dilution, tokenization, and always under attack," Bell said...
...despite all the preparations, it was a lack of aggressiveness at the start of the race that hampered the women's team. Historically, the women have been able to overcome slow starts. But not this time...
...commentators have already compared Takeshita unfavorably with the Prime Minister. The five-year reign of the dynamic, much traveled Nakasone put Japan on the world map -- and the rest of the world on Japan's map. Takeshita's slight international experience is a painful shortcoming. His penchant for the slow process of consensus may also be a dangerous anachronism, the product of an age that Tokyo seems to have outgrown. Says Seizaburo Sato, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo: "If Takeshita had been elected in the 1960s, he would have been a very fine Prime Minister. But unfortunately...
...Professor Robert Solow, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics last week, took the occasion to criticize Reagan's long, obstinate resistance to tax increases thought necessary by many to trim the budget deficit and thus restore confidence. The President, said Solow, "is holding the Congress back from slow access of intelligence...