Word: slow
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...fact, Duarte has had a hand in turning White House policy in El Salvador -- considered the Administration's sole success story in Central America -- into another potential failure, alongside Panama and Nicaragua. U.S. embassy officials in San Salvador continue to insist that Duarte is making slow progress toward ending the war and establishing a democratic system, but other Western diplomats are more pessimistic. "Things are a shambles," says a West European envoy. "The Americans are in for a shock." Even State Department officials concede that the rosy analysis emanating from the U.S. embassy is "dreamwork...
Duarte's departure is expected to deepen El Salvador's sense of political drift. Vice President Rodolfo Castillo Claramount, who is standing in for Duarte, lacks the charisma and the power to stem a slow disintegration. Recent attacks by leftist guerrillas on hydroelectric dams, bridges and power stations have stepped up the eight-year-old civil war, which has claimed some 70,000 lives. The increase in military action guarantees further erosion in an economy that is afflicted with a 26% inflation rate and cannot provide adequate jobs for half the work force. Right-wing death squads have returned, undermining...
...order. Punctuation marks are the road signs placed along the highway of our communication -- to control speeds, provide directions and prevent head-on collisions. A period has the unblinking finality of a red light; the comma is a flashing yellow light that asks us only to slow down; and the semicolon is a stop sign that tells us to ease gradually to a halt, before gradually starting up again. By establishing the relations between words, punctuation establishes the relations between the people using words. That may be one reason why schoolteachers exalt it and lovers defy it ("We love each...
Congress and a growing number of slow-growth rebels have joined the preservationists. "What price are we willing to put on our heritage?" asks Congressman Robert Mrazek, a New York Democrat whose office walls are lined with photographs of Civil War generals. "You can't hallow the sacrifice of those soldiers who died fighting for freedom with a Burger King or a Bloomingdale's." Mrazek and Texas Democrat Michael Andrews have introduced legislation authorizing the Federal Government to seize Stuart's Hill from the developers, at a cost of $35 million or more...
This might appear to be a surpassingly arcane issue. Yet last week, while Reagan and Gorbachev were discussing global and philosophical matters, some of their key aides were locked in a passionate dispute over weapons that are almost too small, too slow and too low flying even to be considered strategic...