Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slow Lane...
Fellow Tri-Captain Nick Branca says that "you can always count on the right side of the pool to work hard" because of Griffin. "He seems like he can never really go slow. We obviously miss him on Sundays, [when Griffin is unable to play for religious reasons]," Branca adds...
...Anybody who says we've got this problem licked is a fool or a knave or both." Microbiologist J. Michael Bishop was referring to the slow, almost imperceptible progress in the search for a cancer cure. So when Bishop, 53, and colleague Harold E. Varmus, 49, were awakened early last Monday with word that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm had awarded them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, both were startled. Bishop called the news "surreal" and Varmus insisted on verifying the information. Others were less surprised. Said Dr. David Baltimore of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute...
Atomic clocks are the world's most accurate timepieces and have important applications in navigation and communication systems. These clocks have also been used to make direct measurements of continental drift, coordinate astronomical observations and test the ability of earth's gravity to slow down time. (It does so at the rate of a second every 10,000 years...
...unfortunate to have two fine leads and a strong supporting cast almost drowning in a frequently confused and often slow plot, much the way Alice almost drowns in her tears...