Word: slow
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...With cellular growth slowing and landline business shrinking Verizon (VZ) has come up with a novel idea - $5 a month landline service. According to The Wall Street Journal, "Verizon believes the plan could help slow the rate of landline customers cutting the cord, so to speak. The company lost 3.7 million access lines, or 9.3% of its base, in 2008." The phone will take incoming calls and limited calls out. People will have to pay for additional telephoning at a modest price. Of course, smart people may use their cell to call out and take calls on their landline...
...Obama’s aides, the nightmare is a depression like the one that struck Japan in the 1990s, and a slow government response is the bogeyman. Geithner and National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers were Clinton officials when a real-estate bubble in Japan burst, dragging the country into a decade-long slump. Alarmed by the downfall, they watched Tokyo gradually approve stimulus spending and scatter funding across projects—to no avail...
...with four goals and an assist. After a sluggish start to the game, the Crimson rallied back with four goals in the final period, ending with a three-goal advantage over its Ivy rival. “The team played pretty well overall, but started a little bit slow,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “We turned on after their goal and had a solid third period.” The first period was packed with numerous penalties, keeping the Crimson on its toes. “We probably gave them too many opportunities...
...pace of change is slow - both inside and outside the medical field. "Even though doctors say they're lacking the absolute numbers, they're protective of their turf and don't want masses of nurses and others taking up their business," says Kondo. "Fundamentally, you're touching on something deeply political in Japan." And unfortunately, it's the people they are trying to help who are paying the price...
...strongest wood can produce a lush, full sound. According to Nagyvary, the opposite is true. He also says it casts doubt on the working hypothesis of many scientists that Stradivari worked during Europe's "little ice age" of the 15th-17th centuries, in which low summer temperatures led to slow but uniform growth in the Spruce trees used for instruments, and that the wood's uniform density explains the instruments' high quality of sound. Last year, researchers in The Netherlands and the U.S. used medical imaging technology to confirm that the wood came from slow-growing trees, and researchers...