Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mastering such sluggish, long-distance photography required painstaking months of rehearsal during which electronic time delays were built into the system's circuitry to simulate the moon's distance. Perhaps just as difficult was the need to satisfy the conflicting demands of two masters: scientists and the public. NASA's geologists were primarily interested in terrain and rocks, while NASA's public relations men and the television networks wanted to focus on the astronauts themselves for a maximum amount of time. NASA worked out a compromise to appease both scientific inquiry and public curiosity...
Uneven Product. Over at Chicago Today, executives are trying to smile through the red ink. Editor-Publisher Lloyd Wendt, 63, who directed Today's transformation into a tabloid in 1969, is convinced that sluggish ad revenues will strengthen rapidly now that his paper has taken the afternoon circulation lead. Chicagoans' ears are numb from repetitive radio spots that trumpet: "Chicago Today! Writing worth reading ... and repeating...
...proposing." Then, in general form, Mills prescribed his own remedy: some controls on wages and prices, plus a ceiling on federal spending. Mills would also reduce income taxes primarily for people in low-income brackets and restore investment tax credits (of an undisclosed amount) to stimulate businessmen's sluggish spending on plants and equipment...
...then a few bits gleam. Hoffman's sluggish nasal metabolism is still amusing if familiar; Barbara Harris has a few moving moments as an auditioning singer with only three good notes; and the late David Burns is the archetypal Jewish father who seems to have sired every writer from Philip Roth to Erich Segal. But that troupe would be funny reading subway signs. Maybe more...
...south; it almost certainly would have presented a vastly altered picture if it had included the large industrial, traditionally leftist cities, of the north. Nonetheless, the show of neo-Fascist strength seemed to be a vigorous protest against the wave of strikes and disorders, the rising unemployment and the sluggish pace of reforms that have afflicted Italy for the past three years. Said Socialist Giacomo Mancini, whose party is the second strongest in the ruling coalition: "The M.S.I, would not have gained so much if the coalition had defended, sustained and carried forward reforms in housing, health and schools...