Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there to visit with the best achievers. And for some reason through this complicated mail system a letter had floated to our attention from a young girl who said, "There are others of us. There are some of us who work the hardest. I'm in a class for slow learners." And so we arranged for the motorcade to stop, and this girl had been positioned out there with her teacher. When we drove away -- just tears streaming down her face, the tears. I read her letter, kind of choked up. It was a beautiful thing that the girl...
...Second half we realized that we had to pressure the ball and slow down their clear and their transition game," McAnaney said...
...problem is overdevelopment," he said. "We as a community need to build more affordable housing and slow the growth of luxury commercial buildings...It's necessary to defeat propostion 1-2-3 because [rent control] provides protection for the elderly and poor...
...your administration was slow in responding to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. When Exxon failed to fulfill its responsibility to clean up the mess, the federal government could have acted to avoid irrevocable damage...
...cannot afford to go too slow in selling off the real estate, because the Government needs the proceeds to pay off S & L depositors and carry out the bailout, which is expected to cost more than $150 billion in the next ten years. Moreover, the Government has never proved to be an entrepreneurial manager of property, so the real estate it owns is likely to keep diminishing in value. Says thrift consultant William Ferguson: "Bad assets don't usually get better, they get worse. Buildings and sites deteriorate...