Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural gas battle was only one manifestation of a broader problem Carter has had with Congress since he took office. Having campaigned for the presidency as an anti-Washington outsider, he was slow to cultivate the old congressional hands who make things work on Capitol Hill. His White House congressional liaison staff was for a time small and inexperienced, and Carter's own efforts to charm the legislators have sometimes been inept...
...Seneca For all of medicine's skills, one thing has not changed since Seneca's day. Old age is as inevitable now as it was 2,000 years ago. Despite jogging's obvious benefits (for some people), it can do no more than slow the decline of the heart and lungs. The most conscientious exercises, careful diet and cautious life-style cannot halt the gradual hardening of the arteries, or prevent the reduced output of critical hormones, or bring a cessation to the wholesale death of brain cells. Such holding actions as face-lifts and skin treatments...
Though it was achieved by the game's end, the resurgence was slow in coming, as the Crimson women came out sluggish, letting Northeastern dominate play throughout the first half...
...first mile of the three-mile course was slow for the 2-1 cross-country team. Squad manager Debbie Vogel said yesterday. "It was very, very windy and the race started across an open field." Robinson said the course continued over "long, monotonous stretches of road that were very flat...
Some books are stored in acid-free boxes and envelopes, which "won't stop deterioration completely, but will slow it down," Freitag said...