Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alas, the system, called Pronto, was too slow in catching on. The bank has advised an estimated 25,000 home-banking subscribers that their accounts will be canceled, as of Jan. 31 for individuals and Feb. 28 for small businesses. The move has jarred the banking industry and raised doubts about the future of all home financial services...
MOST economic experts agree that the trade deficit is the result of more than an overvalued dollar. American industry is getting beaten in the world market by being slow to innovate. Surpluses that foreign countries channel into research and development are divied up by American companies as short-term profits. While foreign governments help develop new competitive advantages for their companies, our elected leaders allow Wall Street executives to squander time and money on corporate takeovers, which produce nothing...
Feldstein argues that the United States should not try to slow the dollar's fall by pegging it to other nation's currencies or by setting target ranges. In order to act with maximum efficiency, Feldstein believes the Federal Reserve Board should let markets determine the value of the dollar (however low that may be) and focus its monetary weapons on controlling inflation at home...
...progress is too slow. Additional spending on contraceptive research and development is badly needed. In 1972 global spending was estimated at $74 million annually, a paltry sum compared with many Third World military budgets. The funding in 1983 was just $57 million. One reason for the decrease was the Reagan Administration's antiabortion policy. U.S. contributions to international population-assistance programs declined 20% between 1985 and 1987, to about $230 million...
...like the wholesale destruction of species, are irreversible. Others, like global climate changes caused by man, are so profound that if allowed to progress too far, they could prove to be overwhelming. Simple prudence suggests that taking forceful preventive action now -- to save energy, to curb pollution, to slow population growth, to preserve the environment -- will give humanity a much better chance of adapting to whatever comes in the future...