Word: slow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Though the areas of most interest to visitors got through Katrina pretty much intact, the haunting images (including tourists trapped in hotels) and constant media attention left over from Katrina has kept the bulk of sightseers from returning. "It's been slow. Seems like everybody's doing about 30 percent of the business they were doing pre-Katrina," says Tom Mullen, whose grandmother founded the French Quarter psychic reading shop Bottom of the Cup Tea Room back in 1929. On a display shelf in the shop, next to the crystal balls and good-fortune candles, are packets of incense that...
...officials have rolled out a new advertising campaign, featuring a new slogan ("COME FALL IN LOVE WITH NEW ORLEANS ALL OVER AGAIN") and homegrown celebrities such as Emeril Lagasse, Wynton Marsalis and actress Patricia Clarkson. But prospective tourists could be forgiven if they're still confused. Almost since the slow recovery began, New Orleans has been sending mixed messages, begging the federal government for more financial help and asking the state to send in the National Guard to help battle a violent crime wave, while assuring skittish tourists and convention planners that the city's historic attractions are intact...
...fairly well despite rising interest rates and a drop in new housing starts, adds Pipas. But the discretionary buyers are having second thoughts about buying another one, or they are trading the pickups in for mid-sized and even small cars, he says. If the economy continues to slow, even the commercial business, which is closely tied to the construction and housing market, is also likely to soften, Pipas acknowledges...
...Logitech's Wireless DJ Music System. There's a USB transmitter that plugs into the PC, a remote control with 100-meter range, and a charging station that you connect to a sound system or boombox. With three distinct, potentially tricky components, I was prepared for a slow trudge towards harmonious functionality. Instead, I was grooving to my tunes...
...Andy are apprehended in the kitchen, searching for wine. A fine white is offered without hesitation. Later still, another bottle disappears from an ornamental selection next to the reception. Our second night is chilly and we ask a passing waiter to light one of the open fires. It's slow to kindle so, at Andy's suggestion, G. removes a perfume spray from a display range of spa products and, holding a cigarette lighter in front of the nozzle, produces fragrant jets of flame. I pose these miscreants, fully dressed and shod, for a group photo in G.'s bath...