Word: glacially
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...If there is an issue on which more voters are in agreement than stopping illegal immigration, what is it? My sympathy is with the people trying to do something. The government's efforts are glacial and overwhelmingly insufficient. Let's go to the next level: close the doors, and put up a NO VACANCY sign...
...remote and barren highlands of eastern Iceland, the herds of reindeer and flocks of pink-footed geese suddenly have some company. Hundreds of workmen have moved into the unspoiled valleys northeast of the Vatnajökull icecap, where glacial rivers flow through magnificent canyons in a starkly beautiful volcanic landscape. The men are working on the Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project: a vast network of dams, reservoirs, tunnels, power stations and high-tension lines to support a new aluminum-smelting plant for the U.S. multinational Alcoa on a fjord some 70 km to the east. At a total...
...high and 730 m wide, it will be the tallest rock-and-gravel dam in Europe. Due for completion in 2009, Kárahnjúkar, together with two smaller dams, will create the Hálslón reservoir, submerging 57 sq km of glacial river valley in the process. The related Kárahnjúkar power plant will produce 4,560 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy per year by harnessing the Jökulsá á Dal river as well as the Jökulsa í Fljótsdal waterway, some 25 km to the east...
...never gets to Mississippi, or even to North America. The first setting is Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean; then Louis follows Julie to Marseille, and they finish in the snow of Switzerland. The movie?s emotional trajectory is also from hot to cold, earth tones to glacial whites. For a man obsessed, Belmondo plays it low-voltage; Deneuve is only the most gorgeous paperweight. The film has no heat, only humidity, and that in the early going. By the end, Truffaut has packed his movie in Alpine...
...transphobia that keeps trans people from finding jobs, housing, or health care that makes them so vulnerable to violence in the first place?  Though gay and lesbian activists have made significant social and legislative inroads in the last two decades, progress for gender-variant people has been glacial by comparison. Only four states—California, New Mexico, Minnesota, and Rhode Island—explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity...