Word: slow
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...having the opportunity to show we were the best team there,” Harvey said. “We certainly don’t panic after the first day,” Harvard coach Kevin Rhoads said of his team’s tendency to get off to slow starts. “They usually lift their games.” Perhaps the brightest note on the opening weekend was the play of freshman Christine Cho, who competed individually in the tournament. In her first collegiate competition, Cho (73-75-148) finished second overall. “It?...
...infrastructure improvements, some worry that the top-down style of improving handicap facilities will slow change in the countryside, where most of China's disabled live. "It is good to have a showcase city in China that is more accessible than ever before," says Van Wetter. "The infrastructure is the expensive part, but in a way it is the easy part. To change attitudes and find innovative and local way to improve access in rural areas is more challenging. You have villages there are not even accessible by road...
From the taxi drivers mourning slow business from a low turnout to the confused delegates figuring out the uncertain schedule, the Republican National Convention was disappointing. My recent trip there was tainted by lackluster speeches, and a hasty vice presidential decision...
...Nagl noted that, traditionally, commanders want as many troops as they can get, and that General Petraeus would be expected to "slow-roll the withdrawal" if he were to remain in charge of Iraq only. "But given that he knows that he is going to assume responsibility for Afghanistan as well, it indicates the gains in Iraq really are fragile and this is probably a prudent decision." But Nagl, now with the Center for a New American Security in Washington, is still puzzled by the decision. "I would not say we are winning the war in Afghanistan...
...helped a woman chase excited monkeys from her kitchen (they were eating her cakes) and assisted a man who stopped his car at a traffic light and saw a snake writhing in the backseat. Colleagues have taken monkeys electrocuted by overhead power lines to vets, rescued sloths making painfully slow progress while crossing roads and even captured an alligator who had chased a cat up a tree. (See photos of Primates on the Danger List here...