Word: slow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slept in rickety log cabins without electricity or plumbing and took the mostly palatable meals in the "mess hall." And when a busload of girls from a neighboring camp would stop in every few weeks for a "social," we would all slow-dance awkwardly to "Stairway" and try to get a kiss to brag about at breakfast the next day. The end of camp always came too soon, and I usually spent the long ride home telling Mom and Dad how awesome the summer had been...
...interest rates by one quarter point and returned its "bias" to neutral ?- and gave little sign of what it planned to do at its next meeting on August 24. TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl says that?s because Greenspan himself doesn?t know. "If the economy starts to slow down ?- and there are scattered indications that it?s beginning to ?- chances are he won?t raise again," he says. "But with consumer spending at its current blistering pace, he needs to look at two more months of data before he can decide...
...definition of humanitarian aid, while the U.S. seeks to limit assistance to Belgrade while Slobodan Milosevic remains in power. "Kofi Annan will push hard against denying aid to Serbia because common sense dictates that the region won?t be stabilized without it," says Dowell. "And strangling Serbia may actually slow the emergence of an alternative to Milosevic." On one point of contention, though, a consensus is emerging: Even countries whose own cops are unarmed appear to accept that policing Kosovo will take more than a billy club and a whistle...
Take the making of metal buildings and building products: it is a most unglamorous, cyclical and slow-growth business. Yet it yields Houston-based NCI Building Systems more than a dime of operating income on each dollar of sales, according to chairman C.A. Rundell Jr. That is nearly double the industry average. Besides, NCI has grown from a small regional operator to one with 38 plants in 17 states and another in Mexico, and sales of $675 million for fiscal 1998, which ended Oct. 31 (vs. less than $40 million nine years earlier...
...Spanish. And then Davila spoke, in Spanish, then in English, thanking the throng for turning the place of Atkinson's death into sacred ground. State senator Joe Eddie Lopez followed him, asking Davila to tell his officers "that we love the work that you do, that we are slow to express it as much as we should, but that the safety of our children and our families rests in your hands...