Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good news, then, is that a powerful marketer has come up with a cheap and tasty product that can do much to whip malnutrition. The frustrating fact, however, is that Austin & Co. feel constrained to go slow by politics and the realities of the marketplace...
...forecast found that the U.S. will have no growth at all. Elsewhere, performances will range from flat in Britain to a healthy 4.5% to 5% expansion in Japan. West Germany, Europe's trusty "locomotive," will slow to about 3%, while France will do well to reach 2.5%. Because of higher prices for oil, balance of payment deficits for the OECD countries will double, to $40 billion. Meanwhile, the combined surpluses of the OPEC cartel will also double, to $70 billion...
...increases in West German interest rates-will only make the situation worse, and it advises policymakers to sit tight. Their main priority, the OECD advises, should be to reduce oil imports. Says John Fay, head of the OECD's economic department: "We have a long road of rather slow growth ahead...
Dick Gregory, who introduced Marley and who was present at the press conference, also seemed to sense Marley's vulnerability. The singer was slow to respond to questions, and when he did so his words were almost inaudible. He was silent for very difficult questions and the articulate Gregory spoke for him almost every time he could not answer...
...robot swept around Jupiter itself, coming within 404,000 miles of the cloud tops, the J.P.L. controllers fired Voyager 2's small thruster engines for 76 minutes, a "slow burn" that changed its speed slightly. Thus, after sailing by its next target, Saturn, in August 1981, Voyager 2 will continue on to Uranus, more than 1.6 billion miles from earth. It will reach Uranus 4½ years later, in January 1986. Leaving Jupiter, Voyager took an edge-on look at the planet's ring, which emerged on J.P.L. TV screens as a glow-'ng white neon-like...