Word: slower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place at the wrong time. Newfields (near Dayton) and Riverton and Gananda (outside Rochester) were begun when the nearby metropolitan areas were losing jobs. Other towns like Flower Mound were located outside the path of growth of their cities. As a result, all the HUD new towns have experienced slower-than-expected growth. Flower Mound has attracted only 420 residents in six years, out of a projected eventual population of 61,141. Gananda was a ghost town until a developer took over last year. Besides that, a number of the ventures were built by energy firms, shopping center developers, civic...
...disappointing U.S. figures are part of an international economic trend that marks the close of the recovery from the 1974-75 recession. Throughout most of Western Europe, productivity increased last year at a slower rate than in 1976. And even the Japanese, whose productivity growth has sometimes been sensational, had to settle last year for an advance of only...
...J.V.s had an easier time of it, thrashing MIT by 18 seconds and Dartmouth by 20 with a time of 6:23--11.2 seconds slower than the varsity in considerably worse conditions and without being pressed...
...began reporting for TIME as a Washington correspondent in 1958, and has assessed six presidencies, including, of course, Jimmy Carter's. In the process, Sidey saw his city change. "Washington used to be a much slower town," he says of his early years there. "It was a more human undertaking. There was more laughter then too, and I miss that...
Governors and mayors who might be embarrassed by big surpluses can take some ironic comfort in the thought that they will soon be dwindling. Higher spending and a probable slower rate of growth in the economy late this year will shrink the aggregate state-city surplus to somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion in 1978. That is a tidy sum, but it gives officials less reason to keep federal deficits high...