Word: glacial
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...elites, and that may make Megawati Sukarnoputri the country?s next president. The opposition leader, who won the biggest share of the vote ?- 34 percent ?- in the June 7 election, on Thursday broke her silence and demanded the reins of power. Megawati had remained circumspect during the subsequent glacial vote count as backroom negotiations continued among the country?s power centers, including the military, the ruling Golkar party (which polled 22 percent) and a plethora of smaller parties. Thursday?s announcement follows indications that the military may have offered to back her in November?s electoral assembly, in exchange...
...cellular network, the 6-oz. phone works in 48 countries, from Iceland to Indonesia, and bills international calls at $1 to $2 a minute. A built-in infrared modem lets you send e-mail wirelessly from one of the many notebook computers equipped with an infrared port. The glacial 9.6-kbps transmission rate, however, billed by the minute, can be a drag...
...Barksdale publicly displayed bravado--There's plenty of room for both of us! he declared--he was moving swiftly on two fronts. He turned to the Justice Department for antitrust relief, and he started looking for an exit strategy. So while the district court in Washington moved at its glacial pace to determine whether Microsoft had violated the public trust, Netscape scampered at Net speed into AOL's $4.2 billion embrace. Hum a dirge, friend, and light a candle to your info gods. Netscape, we hardly knew...
...raised earlier this year as a means of pressuring the Serb president to withdraw from Kosovo. "Krstic's arrest certainly turns up the heat on Milosevic," says Barnes. "The West can see how shaky Milosevic is, and Krstic's arrest will further destabilize him." Its pace may be glacial, but justice has not forsaken the Balkans...
...high-level summit is inappropriate for the issues at stake here -- they're negotiating over the details of a single clause of the Oslo Agreement, but Washington is treating it with the same sense of drama as if it were a peace treaty between nations at war." But the glacial progress of even such limited negotiations suggests Bill Clinton will have to look elsewhere for that legacy-defining foreign policy achievement...