Word: slow
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...Meanwhile, the Government Accounting Office said in a new report issued this week that the Obama Administration should slow down any plans to dismantle the Auto Task Force it put together last winter. Given Chrysler's remaining challenges, that sounds like a good idea...
...think servicers are still being slow to modify loans? Foreclosure activity is six times what it was four years ago. Those are numbers that the system really isn't set up to handle. And there are more complications. For example, one of the delays in processing foreclosures right now is that the servicers are trying to make sure that every loan in their portfolio either qualifies or doesn't qualify for HAMP [Home Affordable Modification Program, the Federal Government's attempt to incentivize more modifications]. Even if you've already screened a loan to see if it might qualify...
...build up in Alzheimer's patients' brains - among the cells. But in this case, it may have been an excess of calcium that led to cell death. Xie and his colleagues have since found that the Alzheimer's drug memantine, which works by reducing calcium levels inside cells, can slow the rate of isoflurane-induced cell death. "That certainly suggests that Dr. Turner and we could be looking at the different sides of the same coin," Xie says...
...this year, as Democrats had hoped. "We're not going to be bound by timelines," Reid told reporters as he emerged from a weekly lunch with Democratic Senators. He vowed to pass a bill "as expeditiously as we can," which is another way of saying it will probably be slow going over the weeks to come. (See 10 players in health care reform...
...Asking the Arab states to accept Israel's offer to simply slow down construction in the West Bank and its refusal to stop building and demolishing Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem - after Obama publicly and repeatedly demanded it - has battered the Administration's credibility in Arab capitals. And Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated on Monday his refusal to heed Washington's call to begin negotiating with Netanyahu in the absence of a settlement freeze. Abbas has promised his public and his Fatah movement, which is deeply skeptical of the prospects for dealing with Israel's hawkish government, that...