Word: slower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will subside a bit more than was commonly believed. In December board members thought that the rate of price increases for 1976 would be about 6.6% (as measured by the Consumer Price Index); since then, 6% has become the standard forecast. Now some board members foresee even a slightly slower pace-perhaps 5.7%. Main reason: food and fuel prices have declined more than expected...
...leaving their cars at home. Two lanes-one in each direction-of the busy Santa Monica Freeway were marked with diamond-shaped signs and set aside for buses and cars carrying three or more people during the morning and evening rush hours. All other vehicles were kept to the slower-moving lanes. Purpose of the plan: to persuade Californians to form car pools or to use Los Angeles' regional commuter bus system...
...flat sounding tentative and timid. Perhaps Stulberg intended to set off the later robust sections of the movement with his restrained opening, but he drew a sound more anemic than richly resonant. During this section, moving lines in the lower strings were buried by enthusiastic violins. In the slower second movement, the group seemed to recover from its weak start as Stulberg set an easy pace for the almost religious lyrical passages that followed. He allowed the audience to revel in Mozart's rich, melancholy harmonies. Some well-placed accents would have given the ensuing third movement the bounce...
...many respects, it was a vastly changed Nixon who toured China. His shoulders were more stooped, his gait slower. He favors the left leg, on which he was operated for phlebitis in 1974, and wears an anti-embolism stocking on it to keep fluids from accumulating. Nixon was accompanied by his own U.S. Navy medical corpsman who took his blood pressure at least twice a day, and a top doctor from Peking Hospital was also assigned to him duringthe visit...
...ubiquitous for Americans to kick the habit entirely, but there are some measures that could discourage excess. Copier manufacturers could end their current race to build ever faster and more convenient machines, which only encourage overuse. Heavy institutional users of copiers could also replace their hares with tortoises; slower machines are generally cheaper to operate any way. To conserve paper - and trees - manufacturers could provide more recycled paper for their machines. And, of course, a little personal self-control would help; copying a marginally impor tant document does not diminish its superfluity one bit. And who really enjoys receiving Xeroxed...