Word: slow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...three simultaneous hostage dramas began to unfold, onlookers gathered. "It's like watching 24 in slow motion," said Vineet Pandit, 22, who lives near the Oberoi. What they would see at each of these sites was a parade of hundreds of uniformed troops over the course of several hours: the Mumbai police, the Indian army and paramilitary groups including the Rapid Action Force and the National Security Guard's ?lite "Black Cat" commandos, distinctive in their all-black uniforms. It was not always clear who was in charge. On Thursday at the Taj, police officers waited idly in their jeeps...
...things that make school reform so wrenching and slow is that schools become embedded in people's hearts. This is true in rich neighborhoods and poor ones, with good schools and bad. Rhodes talks about his school as if it were an extension of himself. He talks about "my teachers" and "my staff," and he refers to other students as "my colleagues." "I love Anacostia High School," he says. At the same time, he is dismayed by his school. He walks through his halls, pointing out the litter on the floor and the broken lockers. Rhodes...
...terror spreading throughout both Afghanistan and Iraq, anti-Arab sentiment was palpable at the time, and again, the United States had little to lose in labeling the actions of the Arab janjaweed as genocidal before the U.N. could. Yet, again, intervention and even effectual advocacy has been slow to come...
...different guys who can attack, and our post-men draw a lot of contact.”While Harvard was able to maintain a double-digit advantage over its Crusader opponents for the last few minutes, that was not the story the entire game. The Crimson began the game slow as Holy Cross seemed to get a hand on every Harvard possession, leading to a total of 12 first-half Crimson turnovers. When Harvard was able to get the ball to the hoop, the shots did not fall that often in the first moments of the game, and the Crimson...
...would sort of run three steps up and slide two steps back down,” said Sprague, a former varsity track runner at Harvard. “It was progress, but very, very slow progress...