Word: glacially
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...crutch. For one thing, the trailer doesn’t even live up to the basic level of slickness that you’d expect from a trailer in the “Ocean’s Insert Number Here” series. The clip moves at an almost glacial pace, apparently assuming that we’ll just be so horny to see Brad and George that we’ll want to look at them in static shots for seconds at a time. Oooh! Look, it’s Al Pacino! He is an eminent actor, right? Yeah...
...week, was a top campaign promise of newly-minted UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09. Instead of pushing the idea through the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ committee system, which often moves at a glacial pace, Petersen and Sundquist led the UC in acting unilaterally. They created a Harvard Computer Services e-mail account to act as an anonymous tip line and opened it to students, promising that a committee of four undergraduates would assemble the information and present it to problem TFs. Unfortunately...
...Levels The IPCC predicts a rise in sea levels of 18-59 cm. But the assessment doesn't account for the possibility of accelerated glacial melting posited in a recent Science study, which estimated that seas could rise as much as 1.4 m by the end of the century-enough to swamp low-lying coastal cities...
...report predicts sea levels will rise 7 in. to 23 in. Bad, but not too dire, right? But this assessment doesn't account for the possibility of accelerated glacial melting, which a recent Science study estimated could raise seas more than 4 ft. by the end of the century--enough to swamp low-lying coastal cities...
...blood and remove everything including the corpses.'' In September 1976, Mao Tse-tung died and the ferocious Jiang Qing was arrested for conspiracy, along with the rest of the infamous ''Gang of Four,'' whose members had played such a pivotal role in prolonging the Cultural Revolution. Then began the glacial process of ''rehabilitation.'' Cheng petitioned the police to investigate the death of Meiping. But not until October 1978 did a committee of officials finally come to her house ''to apologize to you for the wrongful arrest and imprisonment you suffered.'' The police also unfroze her bank accounts and promised...