Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside committee has been meeting with the English Department for the past year to speed up Harvard's notoriously slow tenure process and to help the tradition-bound department examine its strengths and weaknesses...
...accord. In Tokyo the dollar's high reached 139.88 yen, its loftiest level in 16 months and just below the 140-yen ceiling that the allies set. The U.S. and its partners are determined to do what they can to slam on the brakes -- but whether their efforts would slow down the runaway dollar remained an open question...
Goldman has maintained that public disorder, spurred by both the slow pace of some reforms and the side effects of others--like inflation arising from the easing of price controls--will lead conservatives to seize power from Gorbachev...
...month in a sleight-of-hand agreement that cut the 1990 deficit to about $100 billion to comply with the Gramm-Rudman law. But a recession could make a mockery of that rosy projection by swelling the red ink to as much as $175 billion. "Using monetary policy to slow the economy is a poor second-best solution," says David Rolley, a senior economist at the Wall Street firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert. "Cutting the budget deficit is the proper tool. But it is late...
...little else to say: he promised to consult the allies about the offer, praised the short-range nuclear cut as a "good step, but a small step," and refused to countenance any kind of negotiations on short-range nuclear forces (SNF). Once again the U.S. was made to look slow and unimaginative -- and once more it might be missing a chance to reduce tensions. The failure was all the more remarkable because some of Gorbachev's ideas have relatively little military significance. His unilateral reduction of 500 short-range nuclear weapons would come to about 5% of perhaps...