Word: slow
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...leave the theatre, the “Revels” actors come gallivanting through the aisles, fetching families, and leading chains of people to the exit. These effusive personal touches add to the already buoyant and lively atmosphere in Sanders. At times, the acts can be a bit slow and similar in material, but there are other moments of pure fun and innovation found in the dances by the Pinewoods Morris Men and the clogging of Gillian Stewart.The Morris Men make several appearances, sometimes with jingle bells attached to their knees, other times with swords. Stewart demonstrated her unique clogging...
Indeed, large industrial groups such as carmakers Renault and PSA (which makes Peugeots and Citroëns) are now responding to the massive slow-down in the auto sector by temporarily closing plants and imposing stored or anticipated time off on workers under their retained 35-hour schemes. That may not be how employees had planned to use their time off, but it beats being laid...
...similarly reduced intelligence from the characters, who must forever be running alone into the woods, walking into crime-scene tunnels or taking a ride with someone quite likely to be the killer. For the genre director, a horror film is a game of geometry. It's all about the slow movement of the victim and the camera into a space of probable peril. In the Hitchcock school of tension-ratcheting, Lussier is an apt apprentice. (He also borrows a Hitchcock trick, from Stage Fright, of showing a misleading scene from the killer's demented point of view.) The movie...
...Getting the capital for these into the system means running them through government agencies and into the private sector. Many of the projects will operate in regulated parts of the economy like the health care system, so they will be subject to a set of bureaucratic rules which may slow down their implementation...
...there speed bumps along the way? Well, the vetting of Secretary of Commerce nominee Bill Richardson - withdrawn after it was revealed that he's part of a federal pay-or-play probe - was hardly a model, and Timothy Geithner's tax problems while at the International Monetary Fund will slow down Geithner's move to Treasury, though probably not for very long. The unexpected indictment of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and the circus that followed introduced a minefield that wasn't on anyone's transition road map, while the choice of Rick Warren to lead an Inaugural prayer generated unanticipated...