Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, a national strike called by the main opposition group got off to a slow start Saturday...
...years, is to keep his dark side under control. Aides joke about his demeanor. Playing off Doonesbury's conceit that George Bush has an invisible "evil twin" Skippy, Dole staffers joke that their candidate has an invisible "happy" twin. Even after Dole knew he had won Iowa, he was slow to celebrate. When he finally accepted his victory, breaking into a genuine smile, Iowa voters must have got a special lift, having made this sad man happy for a moment. Before the week was out, the happy twin had again disappeared...
...party plenum was also the occasion of Boris Yeltsin's ouster from his nonvoting seat on the ruling Politburo. A former Gorbachev protege, Yeltsin had been relieved as head of the Moscow party organization last year after delivering a harsh speech criticizing the slow pace of reform. Elevated to Yeltsin's former Politburo rank were two technocrats closely allied with Gorbachev: Georgi Razumovsky, 52, the Central Committee secretary in charge of personnel, and Yuri Maslyukov, 50, the State Planning Committee chairman. They are now the youngest members of the 21-seat Politburo, a distinction held until last week...
TIME's correspondents quickly concluded that any attempt to close the deficit strictly through spending cuts would be unworkable and unwise. Most non-defense programs have already been slashed relentlessly during the Reagan years, and the President has reluctantly consented to slow the growth of his military budget...
Spending cuts over the next four years will slow the accumulation of the national debt and thus reduce the projected level of federal interest payments...