Word: slow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main problem for the Crimson pair was a slow start that proved insurmountable...
...Raiders dominated the puck in the offensive zone, taking advantage of Harvard's characteristically slow start. Another power play chance was handed to the Crimson as a result of a hooking penalty on Colgate's Darryl Campbell at 18:54. But Harvard's inability to clear the puck out of the corners and win face-offs allowed another penalty kill...
Although recession looms large in Latin America, a slow and painful bottoming out of the crisis is occurring in East Asia. But the return to growth will be very gradual, barring any other unforeseen disruption. In this respect, the ability of China to manage the stability-growth-reform trilemma in an increasingly difficult environment is an ominous question mark. In the same vein, the issue of when Japan will start to become part of the solution to global economic woes instead of being part of the problem remains open...
...destabilizing impact. The process is irreversible, if only because of the information technology and communications revolutions. The problem also is that contrary to some illusions, one cannot pick and choose in the package. Even if many governments would like to bar this or that aspect of globalization, or slow down its penetration, doing so amounts to a rearguard battle...
...ground and flogged and their right foot, the accelerator foot, has been cut off by a policeman with an ax. This is the Republican position on impeachment as I understand it. And I agree that watching miscreant drivers hopping around with blood dripping from their stumps would make me slow down, no doubt about it. It certainly seems to work in Singapore...