Word: slow
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...Harvard that fast or were the other crews (the best in the country) that slow? Did the Crimson's fast start or The Harvard Mystique merely demoralize the contenders? Only the remainder of this racing season will determine whether Harvard's victory was a statement of superiority or a fluke...
District 65 officials were slow to respond to Powers's criticisms, but the union's Harvard organizer, Deborah O'Dell, is reportedly preparing a response to Powers which will appear in the next set of District 65 newsletters...
...Joseph C. Wilson, builder of Xerox Corp., was fond of observing that if his company continued to grow at the meteoric rates of the 1960s, its sales would soon exceed the U.S. gross national product. The implication of that self-evident absurdity: Xerox's growth would have to slow; and it has now come true. Last year the company posted record revenues of $4 billion, but its profits suffered their first decline -a gossamer 1.8% before write-offs, to $342 million-since 1951, when Xerox was a small photographic-paper maker, known as the Haloid Co., in Rochester. Worldwide...
Coach Barnaby said the change of courts may have been fatal for the Crimson in its match against Columbia. "The change from the very fast courts at Penn to Columbia's slow courts undoubtedly can make a difference...
These rules were long overdue. At times they may have added new problems to the old; they certainly did not go far enough in providing protection to subjects and many universities were slow to comply. Yet the number of unethical experiments-of which Harvard has had its share-have diminished during the past decade. While the change is due in part to scientists' increased awareness of ethical guidelines in research, some of the credit belongs to regulation...