Word: slowed
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...were not for overeating, fat people would have no difficulty losing weight. The fact is that the nation's energy and inflation struggles are hopelessly intertwined, and neither can be won alone. Earlier this spring, for instance, the Administration confidently insisted that the rise in food prices would slow sharply during the year. Though many economists still believe this, the Agriculture Department no longer seems so confident just where food prices will end up, and last week conceded that prices would probably climb by about 11% during the year, just about the same as in 1978. Unanticipated large-scale...
...Lenin Stadium, now 23 years old, has been thoroughly refurbished. On the newly installed track, times were slow last week, but that could have been partly because of the paucity of world-class sprinters. As at most Olympic venues, the seating is bleacher-style and tough on the back and posterior. Rest rooms are a testament to the Soviet bladder: one ladies' room, for example, serves for nearly 10,000 spectators with just three toilets...
...slow "go" for high school competency exams...
...Gary's parents, who say they never received a call or letter about his schoolwork from any of Gary's teachers, see things differently. Says his father: "If he's slow in learning, then I think you should hold him back. Even my little ones-if I don't discipline them early, then I'm going to have problems later. Have they ever asked themselves how a teacher could give a student a passing grade for each of the years he went to school, and then he gets to the eleventh grade and they tell...
Eventually, competency testing may improve the lot of the nation's slow learners. For the present, Judge Carr's postponement comes as a great relief to students like Gary Berrien, caught in an awkward transitional period. In Tampa, after the decision was announced, Ezell Berrien, who testified in the case, said: "We're very happy about the ruling. I'm not against testing. I just think it should be done fairly...