Word: slow
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Last week the Cambridge City Council adopted the weakest of six proposals to slow the conversion trend. The decision represented an ineffectual move against one of the city's most pressing problems. By requesting the state legislature to order an immediate six-month stay on evictions of any elderly people whose apartments are slated for conversion, the council has skirted the issue and tried to offer an election-year appeasement to elderly voters, through a move conversion opponents consider an insult. Landlords and those who purchased condominiums because they cannot afford houses deserve some consideration, but strong action must nonetheless...
...such a helter-skelter course, or even what causes aging itself. But it is not for lack of trying. In recent years, the new science of gerontology (the study of aging) has expended prodigious efforts to locate life's master clock and perhaps use that precious knowledge to slow it or even stop it. One locale for the clock (if there is indeed only one) may be within the smallest unit of life, the cell. Growing normal embryonic cells of various species in a test tube, Biologist Leonard Hayflick has made an astonishing finding: they are not immortal...
Lebanese leftist troops guard the bridge over the Litani, a slow-flowing, dark green stream. No sign or marker indicates that this is the "red line"; the Israelis have warned the Syrians to stay north of it. Beyond doubt, the Syrians are heeding the warning. The Lebanese troops, young, unshaven, carefully check the trunk of our car. Satisfied, they wave us on with a tired look in their eyes...
...program focuses on conservation-inducing the U.S. to use up more slowly the oil and gas that the nation knows it can count on producing. Conservation is necessary, but not sufficient: at best it only postpones the ultimate day of reckoning. As Laird observes: "Conservation alone is a slow walk down a dead-end street...
...voices performed. TV arc lights played across the colors of African robes and Asian pantaloons in the packed congregation. Paul sought no assistance as he rose from the papal throne and lifted the host and chalice. But his hands trembled visibly and he walked to the altar with a slow, painful shuffle caused by his arthritis. To symbolize his years, Paul personally gave Communion to 80 people...