Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Community residents were conspicuously absent. "Doing community outreach is a slow process. This is our first rally ever in Cambridge, and we'll be back for more," Matthews promised...
...idea of revamping the tax laws to bolster investment has lately captured the imagination of political leaders. And the plan that is attracting the most sup port will speed up the slow, cumbersome system of tax depreciation. At present, companies are allowed to take deductions from their income to make up for the depreciation of their aging factories and equipment. Those deductions vary according to the expected life of the plant or gear. For example, railroad equipment can be depreciated over 40 years, tractors over three years. Faster depreciation would reduce taxes and thus increase the capital available for investment...
...struggle over sugar is an embarrassment for Jimmy Carter. Eager to slow the rising cost of food, the Administration condemned the bill when it was introduced in the House last February by a coalition of farm-state legislators. But when sugar industry supporters in Congress threatened to retaliate by blocking approval of the international trade agreement that was endorsed last month in Geneva, the White House abruptly switched signals and said the President would support the bill. The turnabout left White House Inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn in an impossible situation. Asked during House Agriculture Committee hearings if he considered...
...other member is Gerald Nachman, 41, a former feature writer for the New York News, who began a humor column for the paper in 1973. Since then he has proposed establishment of a home for wed mothers and called for an Anti-Turkey Roll League to slow the advance of that luncheon meat. Like Baker, Nachman has begun to avoid politics. "It doesn't touch people's lives like dealing with the phone company does," he explains. "In the real world, people go for weeks without thinking of Jimmy Carter. As a humor columnist, I wish there were...
Meantime, in winding ropes of bright capillaries, the slow and overpowered commuting cars poof home. From above, at night, American cities look like garishly jumbled jewelry strewn up and down the landscape; in the centers, empty high-rises of piled diamonds glow, great sparklers kept alight for the cleaning women, for the admiration of passing planes...