Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appreciated for what it is: a temporary means of saving money and an indication of superpower communication, but not a substantive indication of Soviet--or, for that matter, American--goodwill. A fundamental refashioning of superpower relations requires not a simple cutback in weapons but a complex, gradual, and painstakingly slow evolution toward mutual Soviet and American understanding...
...Friday. At that time Gorbachev startled Secretary of State George Shultz with a sudden declaration that he "felt uncomfortable" about setting a date to meet Reagan in the U.S. He would be much more at ease about a summit, Gorbachev hinted, if Shultz would agree that the U.S. should slow development of the President's cherished space-based Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Shultz would not oblige him, and the summit appeared to be off. But after seeming to brood about the matter for a few days, Gorbachev performed an amazing flip-flop: he dispatched Shevardnadze to Washington with a letter...
Berner quickly dismisses speculation that a change in the oxygen supply had anything to do with the extinction of dinosaurs. "It was a very slow change, over millions of years," he observes. "And most organisms easily adapt." Next comes testing bubbles in 300 million-year-old amber...
...going slow. We're just starting to get into the meat of the issue," said Thomas V. Gaudioso, president of the 1100-member service and maintenance union, which is for the first time negotiating in conjunction with the clerical and technical workers' union...
...comfortable as this production is to watch, it retains the play's stark dramatic moments. The slow pacing of these scenes, as well as the play's long denouement, makes Merchant seem even longer than its two-and-a half hours. The Merchant of Venice is a pleasant gondola ride, but if it were any more languorous, it would be up a creek...