Word: slow
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...easy to mock Couric's palsy-walsy tone and Anchorman references, but at least she's trying to get new viewers' attention. Is change good for its own sake? In one way, yes. There's an intangible complacency that comes when you decide your mission is to slow your losses and run out the clock...
...power, who have no access to the new wealth, who have no protection, who are not patronized by the establishment." He styles himself a nagid or gvir, a traditional Jewish philanthropist-leader who uses his wealth for the public good. During the Lebanon War, when the government was slow to shelter hundreds of thousands of Israelis who fled the Katyusha fire in the north, Gaydamak erected a tent city that housed thousands of families. Last fall, when the town Sderot was facing regular Qassam rocket fire from Gaza, Gaydamak paid to bus thousands of residents down south to stay...
...alone. Enough people are willing to place a bet on Giuliani that the candidate expected to have completed more than 50 fund-raising events, from coast to coast, by the end of March. A big number on his first-quarter financial report would help offset his slow start - compared with those of rivals John McCain and Mitt Romney - in building his campaign organization...
...genocide against Darfurians, it may also be wishful thinking to imagine a united front of fractious rebel groups and Janjaweed defectors. Still, some rebel commanders believe the situation has changed dramatically as a result of actions by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Although international pressure on Khartoum has been slow in coming, with U.N. Security Council action stonewalled by China, and Sudan refusing entry to U.N. peacekeeping forces, the ICC has targeted specific leaders for prosecution. Last month, its chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked pre-trial judges to issue summonses for Ahmed Haroun, a former state interior minister...
...half-baked idea of interviewing the president, who had no idea I was coming, and who could hardly be expected to see me at such short notice - with the weekend looming - but that was all the time I had, and did he have any suggestions? Danielo shrugged, made a slow U-turn and juddered to a halt at the side of a large pink building. "Presidential Palace," he yawned, hopping out, loping up to the low fence and hailing a man strolling on the other side. That turned out to be the head of the Sao Tome and Principe army...