Word: slow
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...long Providence goal kick deflected off of a Harvard defender and into the possession of a Providence midfielder who sent a lead pass to Jones. Meagher and Jones raced after the ball, but the Crimson goaltender was a step too slow as Jones beat him to the ball and sent a roller into a wide open net for the victory. Jones was mobbed by teammates as the Crimson slumped over in a stunned silence...
When he did return to the tour with his bristly head squarely atop a buffed physique, Andre introduced a new character, the Body. Put to the test in June during tough five-setters on the slow clay courts at the French Open, the Body proved strong enough to lift the trophy...
What it could do is shift the kinds of stocks and other investments that make the most sense. When interest rates are rising, the last thing you want to own is banks and brokerages, whose cost of money goes up and whose lending and other businesses tend to slow. You also want to avoid highly speculative (read Internet) companies with little or no earnings. Even steady growth stocks like food and beverages tend to lag as their earnings cheapen in an inflationary climate. Fixed-income investors should avoid longer-term securities because prices fall as rates rise...
...fear, uncertainty, doubt) factor that is sure to slow the pace of change at some big corporations never seemed to affect ex-farmer Zaitz, who says radical change suits him just fine. "I grew up on a dairy farm, where everything that happened in your life revolved around the cows," he says. Feeling trapped by the job, Zaitz often wondered, "'Boy, wouldn't it be great if you could go fishing anytime you wanted?' With Farms.com I wanted to create a lifestyle out of this business--and I did." B2B enterprises like his seem certain to keep cropping up until...
There is not much upside for Holbrooke in Kosovo: a failure here could cost him credibility. Since the war's end, the province has descended into a bureaucratic hell where everyone claims to be in charge of everything, but no one takes responsibility for anything. The slow-moving U.N., instead of providing solutions, serves mostly as an excuse, as in, "The U.N. was supposed to do that." "Things aren't going well at all," says a U.N. adviser based in Pristina. "We're at the point of a make-or-break, do-or-die situation...