Word: slowest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...physics of the record disk. Those in the outer circle move with greater speed, and the closer you get to the pivot the slower they turn. So [laughing] it's the same thing. Those who are closest to the hub of politics move the slowest. It may take them a few years to accept the leadership. There's a cadre of people who were ahead of me when I entered the Likud, who never really accepted my leadership...
...countries manipulate their capital flows, currencies and merchandise imports for competitive advantage--as they did on the cusp of the Great Depression--the threat could spread to U.S. jobs. U.S. unemployment has already edged up from 4.5% in August to 4.6% in September, a month which also saw the slowest rate of job creation in nearly three years...
Change comes more slowly to some places than others. Slowest of all, perhaps, to Mississippi, where only last week did the cold war finally...
...which each component has a vital function. For most sharks, that function is to serve as what biologists call an apex predator, the ocean equivalent of a lion or tiger or bear. Not only do they keep prey populations in check, but they also tend to eat the slowest, weakest and least wily individuals. In so doing, they improve the target species' gene pool, leaving the smarter, stronger individuals to reproduce...
...Bedford's strongest argument is that the whole nation is moving in its direction: critics say Dunn has been able to snub managed care only because Indiana has been among the states slowest to require it. Its economic good fortune will change, they say, when the two automobile companies with large plants in Bedford start requiring employees to shift to managed care and when Medicaid and Medicare begin pushing recipients into HMOs. At that point, if Dunn is to survive, it may have to sell out to a large for-profit chain. Should that happen, Bedford's medical civil...