Word: slower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Houston is learning fast what the rest of the U.S. has been slower to realize: building more, bigger and better hospitals is not the same thing as providing more and better medical care. With all the step-saving gadgets and wider use of less-skilled personnel, nursing still takes nurses...
...from a hip injury, lost his first indoor mile of the season. Running against his doctor's orders, the Luxembourg miler finished second, 4.5 seconds behind Northeastern's Dick Ollen, in the South Weymouth Naval Air Station Invitational Track and Field Meet. Barthel's time was 4:21.3, considerably slower than his previous times this season...
Princeton and Yale Slower...
Some 90% of the company's business is north-south freight, and the ships would cut out 60% of McLean's expensive highway mileage. Though overall shipping time would be slower (30 hours for ships from Wilmington to New York v. 18 for trucks), costs would drop sharply; McLean figures that its ships can haul freight 50% cheaper than trucks on the highway, take business away from railroads...
...finding oil, then cried that Gulf would keep it in the ground so that it would not compete with other U.S. fields. To make them eat their words, Gulf plans to put its Ragusa No. 1 into production by March, even though the company would like to go slower, drill deeper in hopes of finding a bigger pool...