Word: slower
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the world's lowest costs, are beginning to change. In recent months there has been a wave of labor unrest, much of it centered on winning higher wages. Even so, most economists expect South Korea's industrial machine to continue to grow, though at the slightly slower rate of 8.5% annually. The ultimate goal: to place South Korea, currently ranked around 15th among the world's most technologically advanced countries, within...
Even if Transrapid is not awarded the casino-express contract, maglev technology is already on its way to the U.S. Magnetic Transit of America, a subsidiary of West Germany's Daimler-Benz, broke ground in downtown Las Vegas last January for a slower-speed -- 50 m.p.h. -- maglev urban-transit system. Completion of the initial 1.3-mile segment of the Las Vegas People Mover is planned for 1991 -- perhaps a good year for dating the beginning of the maglev...
...examined six weapons systems, including the Aegis defense system used by U.S. vessels in the Persian Gulf. "In all six cases," said the report, "the test agencies stated findings that were not consistent with the evidence." Among the OT&E's sins: setting up targets that were slower or easier to hit than those in combat and using few or no countermeasures, such as radar jamming, to challenge the weapons systems...
...modernist art at the hands of dictators bent on enforcing their philistine tastes with the whole armamentarium of the totalitarian state. Even Mikhail Gorbachev has found that the tradition of putting down avant-garde art dies hard among cultural bureaucrats. As a result, the visual arts have been far slower than literature and music to benefit from glasnost...