Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slow Starters...
...there has been a curious hesitancy about Dole's campaign, raising questions about his managerial skills and decisiveness. A bumbling organizational effort in the 1980 race doomed his run for the nomination before it got off the ground, and this time too he has been slow to establish the kind of political operation that could consolidate his current popularity. He has yet to unveil a timetable for resigning as Senate leader to commit himself full time to the trail or decide what role John Sears, a respected Republican political pro detested by the extreme right, will play in his campaign...
Perhaps the most significant change adding to the turmoil in the credit- card industry is the advent of tax reform. Some experts think the new law will slow down the use of plastic credit because it phases out deductions for interest on card balances. But some banks are getting around that problem by linking Visa cards or MasterCards to a home-equity credit line. Interest on these home loans is still fully deductible. Customers can therefore get a credit line against their homes that permits them to run up as much as $100,000 in interest-deductible card charges...
...Chinese text, "tenth month, day kuei-hai, a guest star appeared within nanmen. It was as large as half a mat; it was multicolored, and it scintillated. It gradually became smaller and disappeared in the sixth month of the year after next." The description, especially concerning the brightness and slow fade of the star, seems to confirm the appearance of a supernova...
...stars die but also about how the universe might expire. A debate is raging over how much "dark matter" -- stuff invisible to astronomers -- exists in the universe. If there is sufficient dark matter, its gravity will be enough to force the universe, still expanding from the Big Bang, to slow, stop and fall together again in a "Big Crunch." If the necessary matter does not exist, the universe will expand forever...