Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Broker Walter Burke pauses amid the plaintive calls from his customers. "Everyone's scared," he says. "They're bailing out." But he finds one consolation. "A fast death," he philosophizes, "is better than a slow...
...must first obtain requisite permits. The Sandinistas also suspended a six-week-old visitors' program with Costa Rica after more than 1,200 Nicaraguans failed to return home from cross-border visits with relatives. Some skeptics wondered if such measures might signal the beginning of an attempt to slow the pace of reforms called for in the Guatemala plan...
...around, as the deficits are the product of a unique American decade of budget deadlock, unfettered spending and unprecedented borrowing. President Reagan, for his part, fought bitterly against tax increases and cuts in the defense budget when both seemed called for. The Democrats, for their part, were slow to compromise on social spending and, like the Republicans, cherished their pork-barrel projects. Corporate America, which had grown content with its domestic marketplace, aggravated the trade deficit by its lack of motivation to sell products abroad. Consumers added to the trouble by developing a ravenous taste for imported goods and credit...
...Slow Start...
They freely admit, however, that members arerigorously expected to "fellowship," or spread theword, outside the Church community. Indeed, somesenior members such as Shepherd left ministerialposts in other denominations because they weredissatisfied with the slow conversion rates...