Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reflexes that help him beat the big boys at hardball. Yet he stokes memories of the lone man on a horse, silhouetted against the craggy horizon and setting sun of Old West values. He has the requisite danger for big-screen stardom -- the stubbornness in pursuit of ideals, the slow anger when pushed, the threat in a face that can mask its intentions -- even as his actions inspire trust. He could be a husband, a lover, a chief of state. And now Costner is poised to tote the ten commandments of frontier heroism into an anxious new decade...
...true that minority and at-risk students are often warehoused in low-level classes, a blanket insistence on cooperative learning may motivate parents of gifted children to abandon the public schools. "We need to be careful," says Stanford education professor Michael Kirst. "We certainly don't want to slow down kids on the fast track...
Miami skier David Ingle, 30, suggests that user attitudes deserve much of the blame. "Riders brought it on themselves," he says. "Many times I'd tell them to slow it down, to ease up. The things they said back you couldn't print. They grab a beer, jump on a machine, and it all goes to their head." This summer's new laws may force skiers to approach the machines more cautiously, and prevent another season of tragic accidents...
...Bush team is dominated by people who understand that agreements between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. can strengthen both deterrence and the Western alliance. Yet they have been slow to act. They came into office looking nervously over their shoulders at the American right wing, which is ever vigilant against backsliding into the bad old days of detente...
Though the inclusion of more ethics specialists may prove a slow process, the development of a required first-year module has been a highly visible commitment to the subject--a commitment that can only help to attract scholars...