Word: slow
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...perception that the sitting Member, Malcolm Turnbull, is egregiously ambitious and opportunistic even by politicians' standards. In addition, Turnbull may pay a price for being the Environment Minister in a government that has just approved a pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar Valley and that's seen as slow to act on climate change...
...problem spending the equivalent of 400 items off McDonald's dollar-item menu on a dinner for two. Over the past few years, they've also turned paying more into a moral cause no right-thinking chef could argue against: free-range, local, sustainable, organic, hormone-free, heirloom, slow food. As a result, top chefs have had to increase their budgets to find the obscure variety of beet grown only by Shakers or the cow that has been massaged, seen Radiohead live and enjoyed Tantric sex before being slaughtered with love...
...positively contrived. The Backstreet Boys’ biggest downfall is their inability or unwillingness to let go of the serious schtick. The album is not fun, unapologetically poppy, or silly by any stretch of the imagination. Out of the 17 songs on the album, 12 are nauseatingly earnest slow songs. “Unbreakable” clearly demonstrates that an entire album of synthesized boy band angst is just not a pretty listen. The Backstreet Boys didn’t seem to get the memo that they’re an aging boy band, not a collection of inspired musical...
Tonight may offer a small measure of redemption for the Crimson and help it avoid the same kind of slow start that plagued it last year...
...Crimson win. After being tied 3-3 at half, Harvard’s offense awoke in the second half, ending the game with four unanswered goals. Although the Crimson has shown the ability to go toe-to-toe with anyone in the pool, its glaring weakness has been slow first-half starts. To prevent this from happening in the postseason, Harvard has adjusted its pre-game preparations. “We spent a whole practice working on our warm-up so we would all be ready to go as soon as the game started,” junior David Tune...