Word: snails
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...time of the year when it feels as though spring is a snail, unhurried, tardy, five stops out of town and stalled on the track, a substantial number of the citizenry can be found impatiently poring over seed catalogs. Nurserymen understand this, and have long since calculated that the darker the day, the more riotous the color of their offerings, the bigger the sale. But it was not until some years ago that flower shows began to move out ahead of the gardening season, nosing their exhibition dates ever closer to the shank of winter. Improvements on the technique...
...last week Congress determined that it could no longer keep within the bounds of the snail-paced speed limit. By a narrow margin of 217 to 206, the House voted to allow state governments to increase the limit to 65 m.p.h. on most interstate highways. The Senate followed suit by a clear majority. The new law applies specifically to rural areas, but nearly 80% of the planned 43,489 miles of the interstate system will be affected...
...economy continues to crawl along at a snail-like pace and for the majority of the population living standards are at pre-1975 levels. Ten years of economic development in the rest of the Pacific Basin have almost completely bypassed the Philippines. And there is no end in sight to the Communist insurgency problem. The ceasefire with the "rebels" came to an end last Sunday, leaving the hard-liners on both sides with the political spoils...
Names can also be changed within dialogue boxes. Any user of the Happy Hacker's souped-up version of Word who happens to click on print will then have to pick from a slightly non-standard set of print quality options--"Snail-paced," "Marginal" and "Ugly" instead of the off-the-shelf "Best," "`Faster" and "Draft...
...result of a snail-like pace and the desire to lessen disagreements, the council has deferred important decisions on key issues--like rent control and regulating commercial growth--until next year, just when campaign rhetoric begins anew...