Word: snails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stash more information in the computer at any given time. You can write longer papers, and your Mac will even perform many operations faster because it will have to access the disk drive less often. Especially if you are considering writing a thesis, or are upset with the snail-like pace of your computer, you need the added memory...
...insists that technical reasons are to blame for the snail-paced progress. But the bigger obstacle may be political. Some $8 billion has accumulated in an aviation trust fund dedicated to improving air safety; the money has been piling up from an 8% tax on every airline passenger's ticket. Many in the aviation industry contend that Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, who is FAA Administrator Donald Engen's boss, has been cowed by the White House Office of Management and Budget into holding these assigned funds in reserve against the federal deficit. "Hogwash!" says OMB Director James Miller...
Library paper work helps slow the process to a snail's pace. Once a professor's list reaches the head of the line, it takes the libraries an additional week of bureaucracy to fill out all the appropriate cards and actually put the book on the reserve shelf...
...quick answers. Unfortunately, however, it also invites quick reactions--from individuals, employers, fearful communities, and the media. Precisely where we would hope for a quick reaction--on the part of the government--decision-making on public education, prevention programs, and social services for AIDS patients has proceeded at a snail's pace...
...questions that haunt the addict who dreams of little else. What pasta shapes go best with which sauces? Is the rich meatiness of a beef-and-tomato sauce better appreciated when wound into the long, sturdy strands of bucatini or when filling the cavities of the convoluted lumache, or snail shell? Have any shapes become so unfashionable that they are being phased out? What will the newly increased U.S. tariff (from less than 1% of value to 40%) do to the price of imported pasta? And, finally, how do they get the holes through the tubes of macaroni...