Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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House Speaker Jim Wright last week urged steps to slow the pace of buyouts, which he said were having a damaging "psychological and economic impact." Meanwhile, members of the Senate Finance Committee have been quietly pondering measures that would reduce the tax loopholes for interest payments and give a break to dividends. To cushion the Wall Street impact of such provisions, they might be included as part of a general tax bill that would seek to narrow the budget deficit...
...practice, when children turn out healthy, is to move them away from the AIDS foster families into permanent homes, making room for more AIDS babies. Thus what the foster parents risk is loving the children and having to give them away, or keeping them to love through a slow death...
...Samson seems slow to catch on to the freeze-out, it is partly because he has been distracted by Fiona's replacement. Lovely Gloria also works at Secret Service (London Central), and is more than 20 years younger than Deighton's middle-aged hero. As in previous Deighton thrillers, the pace quickens once the cool atmospheres and the cast of characters are established. Curious Bernie learns he is being used, but the stronger his suspicions, the more forceful are his bosses' warnings to lay off. At one point, he is ordered across the Atlantic and the American continent...
...what's wanted is a night of unsettled dreams. The sound of the Junkies is a direct and salubrious reaction to the mainstream softening of country music. "What you hear on the radio is pretty sappy," he says. "It's pop with a Southern accent." Margo Timmins, 27, sings slow and deliberate. The other Cowboy Junkies play the same way. After a while, they can sound as if they're working a gig at the funeral for the sweetheart of the rodeo. This is a band grounded in silence ("The lack of sound is as compelling as sound"), suggestion...
Romano and others suggested that Harvard'sactions were in response to criticism last monththat the Medical School was too slow to act inanother issue of scientific ethics...