Word: slower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, those energetic numbers are sandwiched around some slower songs that do not work nearly so well. Originally written to change the pace of exciting two-hour musicals, they are not sung penetratingly enough or performed interestingly enough to excite melancholy or empathy in the opening act of a short musical revue in the Dunster dining hall...
...further ease worries about inflation, Carter last week minimized the quarrel between the White House and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burn over the Fed's tight rein on growth in the money supply. The Fed's policy stands to restrain prices, but at the expense of slower economic growth. Claimed Carter of his relations with Burns, despite evidence to the contrary: "We've never had any disagreements on [economic]subjects...
...watched Dartmouth's women lose to the Vermont team the other night in Hanover," says Wood, currently making the Med School interview rounds. "It's a slower brand of hockey than the men play, but I was surprised at the amount of hitting going on out there...
...scores have fallen?57 points on verbal 64 in math, since 1962?approximating the national decline. More than half the present senior class were reading below grade level when tested in the ninth grade; Marshfield has since inaugurated a well-equipped "skills lab" with personal tutoring to help the slower readers...
...after Officer Mike Swindell finished the course, he spotted a Pontiac speeding by a stop sign. "I was always 20 miles an hour slower than he was, but he was taking those curves bad," Swindell recalls. "Finally, he missed a curve and I caught him." Officer Thomas Rudd has tried another Turner tactic: staying to the left of a fleeing car. Says he: "That's very intimidating, because the only thing the guy sees in his mirror is you about to pass him. This Dodge I was chasing could have outrun me, but he just gave...