Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long struggle against racial discrimination in America, progress has been vast, if uneven and too slow. Barriers against equal access to public accommodations have fallen, voting rights of all citizens have been guaranteed, and blacks have assumed impressive political power in cities and state legislatures. Job opportunities have opened, and the once violent outcry against school desegregation has been muted. But the more intimate, elemental question of whether blacks can live beside whites has remained volatile, pitting neighbors against neighbors, the courts against communities, and a sense of social fairness against the besieged mentality of those who fear change...
Even so, Nomura realizes that progress in the U.S. will be slow. Says a top officer in Tokyo: "The market in New York is very big, and it is going to take us a while before we really get a share. But we can be patient, even take some losses and develop it." Rivals on Wall Street know they cannot afford to be complacent. Says Eugene Atkinson, former head of the Tokyo branch of Manhattan's Goldman, Sachs investment firm: "Despite all our efforts to make long-term plans, we pale in comparison with Nomura's awesome strategic thinking...
Josh has just successfully passed one milestone in the process: his freshman year of high school. His still boyish face is framed by a square- edged haircut. Josh has always been small for his age. That bothers him but does not slow him down. Barely 5 ft. tall, he competes in a sport of giants: his ambidextrous dribbling helped him become starting point guard on the ninth-grade basketball team at Belmont High School in suburban Boston...
...suffers from attacks of what she calls "aloneness," a feeling she rarely has when she is at home alone. At day care, Katie's mood alternates between detached boredom and rapt anticipation. One moment she is like an engine revving up, fast and eager. Then she lapses to a slow idle. Whatever internal rhythm Katie is moving to, it is set against a steady background beat of group activity swirling around...
...Mario Cuomo, who is even more imperious in public than in private, strode into the Hyatt Regency Hotel, where Dukakis and his staff were in residence. The lobby, ground zero for mover-and-shaker watching, was as jammed as a Bloomingdale's white sale, and the elevators were as slow as a Bill Clinton nominating speech. New York's Governor stood impatiently in a crowd waiting for an elevator. When the doors opened, loyal functionaries cleared a path and commandeered the car -- a singular act in this city of practiced charm and charming impracticality. An irked Southern woman remarked loudly...