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...true. Last December, production workers halted publication of the Evening Standard when its editor refused to remove a cartoon critical of British electrical workers who were staging a nationwide slowdown. Last year the Sunday Observer bowed to an ultimatum delivered midway in its press run and removed an anonymous letter criticizing union practices in the newspaper industry. It was, admitted Editor David Astor, "not a very courageous decision...
...school elsewhere outrages many parents. Yet as a practical matter, the bus is an indispensable corrective tool in cities where large areas are predominantly white or black. Thus when President Nixon last year praised the ideal of the neighborhood school and attacked busing, he was in effect suggesting a slowdown of integration-and Southern holdouts acquired new hope for delay. That hope dissolved last week. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed unanimously that transporting pupils to remedy school board-imposed segregation does not violate anyone's constitutional rights...
...course, they have admitted that in the early years of the coup it was under a slowdown, a very significant slowdown. We had a rate of growth of about nine per cent when we fell, and their rate of growth, of course, by even their own statements, was less than half that, and I think it was probably almost zero the first year, year and a half. Now they argue that it's up to eight per cent. I doubt it, and I understand that also the World Bank doubts it, but it's not inconceivable...
Having eliminated various factors that might have accounted for the decay slowdown-such as a lack of oxygen or the presence of any substance with preservative qualities-the scientists decided to double-check and expand their findings by suspending marine bacteria and nutrients at even greater depths. They concluded that the rate of degradation is an average of "ten to 100 times slower in the deep sea." In the deep, they found, there seems to be "a general slowdown of life processes," probably due to the "combined effect of high pressure and low temperature." Alvin's sandwiches, for example...
Colombo, who is credited with executing the plans charted by Bank of Italy Governor Guido Carli for il Boom, also drew up legislation to get the country moving again after a slowdown caused by a wave of strikes. He moved to improve conditions in overcrowded universities and secondary schools. Two weeks ago, he won trade union backing for additional bills improving housing and medical care...