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...Spurning conventional curriculum and methods, he gets his young charges to enthuse about his hero, Beethoven, and his other hero, soul singer James Brown. He instructs them to take pride in America's history and also in Africa's. Touchingly, he lifts the self-esteem of even the slowest...
...Monday's city council meeting Vice Mayor Edward N. Cyr called on citizens and the council to "do their homework" and examine the budget. Cyr added that the budget represented the slowest growth in spending since the passage of Proposition 2 1/2 in the early 1980s...
Salada researchers discovered that in the 1950s tea drinker had begun brewing tea right in the cup instead of in teapots. The idea of giving customers something to do while their tea steeped fit well with Salada's claim that theirs was the "world's slowest teabag," the assumption being that the longer the steeping takes, the better the flavor...
GOVERNOR CLINTON: The country is in the grip of two economic crises. The one that most people are preoccupied with is the three-year slowdown, the slowest three years of any presidency since before World War II, coming at the end of a decade of productivity decline. The result is the loss of a lot of our economic leadership, the collapse of a number of our high-wage jobs and the concomitant disintegration of a lot of the important parts of our society: more children living in poverty, more people working below the poverty line. Everybody concedes that somewhere between...
...underlying change in the way American consumers and business leaders think about saving and spending will make the recovery one of the slowest in history and the 1990s a decade of lowered expectations. Many economists agree that the U.S. will face at least several years of very modest growth, probably in the 2% to 3% range, as consumers and companies work off the vast debt they assumed in the 1980s. But there is much to be gained. Increased investment and long-term thinking, if it endures, could help rebuild the competitiveness of American industry and bring back the kind...