Word: slower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skimps many solid, second-string stories; in covering state governments, for example, or long-drawn stories such as murder trials, the U.P. is often badly outclassed by A.P. On most fast-breaking local stories, on the other hand, U.P. tends to hunt down the news more aggressively than slower-moving A.P., and is often ahead on the wire by minutes that are precious to newspapers about to go to press...
...were climbing steadily (TIME, May 18), said firmly that there is no question of easing credit at the moment. Top officials of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce also predicted in Washington last week that prices will continue to climb for the rest of the year, though perhaps at a slower rate than formerly...
...arrangements to participate in the program. Contracts have so far been let for only 1,000 of the 41,000 projected miles, and only 200 miles have been completed. Though Federal Highway Administrator Bertram D. Tallamy says the program is proceeding on schedule, equipment manufacturers and contractors find it slower than expected. Some manufacturers have been forced to cut back production temporarily while waiting for the program to get rolling...
...those cars with a low chassis. The wind caught his long scarf, wrapped it round the wheel, and in one savage second strangled him. The car skidded, buckled, reared against a tree, and was nothing but a heap of wreckage with one wheel spinning like a roulette wheel...slower, slower, slower in the silence...
...wealth acquired by traitors." Though the Sultan had temporarily managed to claim leadership of the move, the ominous fact was that the Istiqlal had not bothered to let the Sultan know its plans -indicating a split between the Istiqlal's zealous progressives and the Sultan's slower modernism...