Word: slow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lehigh that came out slow and mistake-prone. Harvard took advantage of 11 second-half turnovers--most of them in the first 10 minutes of the half--by driving inside and passing out to wide-open perimeter shooters. Gellert and Clemente drained early three's to bring Harvard to within four. Harvard shot 6-of-7 from three-point range in the second, and 8-of-13 for the game...
...Right now, [the running time] is too slow to make any kind of announcement," Steen said...
Steen warned that although the portal pages function, they are very slow and may not save any changes made to them because the code is still changing--and more hits to the site will further slow the pages...
Doctors have long known that the heart can, in response to a drop in the level of oxygen-rich blood it's receiving, grow extra blood vessels. But the process, called angiogenesis, is often too slow and not extensive enough to stave off a heart attack. About 10 years ago, scientists started identifying certain proteins, called growth factors, that the body uses to build new blood vessels. The proteins act like foremen at a construction site, making sure that all the pieces of the project come together smoothly. Animal experiments showed that there were several ways to get growth factors...
There are still hurdles. Traditional mental-health professionals are more focused today on drug therapies than on social rehabilitation. Ruth Hughes argues that the profession's "belief system" still contains "the idea that people with schizophrenia never get better." Insurance companies have been slow to be convinced that these programs work and will ultimately save money. And many employers still resist hiring the mentally ill. American Postcard's Castaldo recalls telling a fellow businessman "how well I'm doing with handicapped people." The man was interested, Castaldo relates, "but when I mentioned mental health, a wall came down...