Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first game, the Crimson fell hard to top-seeded Navy, 13-3. Harvard's 12-7 loss to Iona in the second game was a slight improvement. Co-Captain Steve Dodge blamed the lagging offense for the slow start...
SELECTED LETTERS OF EUGENE O'NEILL (Yale University; $35). He was the first American dramatist to win international acclaim. His private correspondence records his slow disenchantment with the footlights...
Ever since it practically invented the idea more than a century ago, Sears has seen a big sale as a sure cure for slow business. Even by the standards of the largest U.S. retailer, last week's offering in Chicago was its most stupendous yet. Chairman Edward Brennan served as the star pitchman. "It's a trophy," hawked Brennan, 54, a cherubic former Sears salesman. "It's an excellent facility, very well maintained; nothing of its size and value has ever been sold before. After all, it is the tallest building in the world...
Since the virus spread 10 times faster thanMorris had intended, the experts said, computersbegan to slow down and lose memory becausemultiple copies of the program were trying tobreak into the same computer at the same time...
...That I'm slow to anger. After ten years of being a chief executive, I've developed a certain inner calm and steadiness about me. It's not a bad resource, by the way, to have as President. If you get angry every day, you're going to be a real risk. I think it's an asset to be steady and a unifier. Incidentally, that quality stood me in good stead in the primaries...