Word: slow
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...know that ghost is me,” he admits over a warm piano accompaniment, “and I will never be set free as long as there’s a ghost that you can’t see.” Facing a slow death in the late stages of Parkinson’s Disease, Cash’s performance is a patient, sensitive rejection of the steeliness so many have ascribed to him. He is a ghost, a specter in the American imagination of the stoic hero, a musical John Wayne. Yet like Wayne, whose heroism...
...shake up the Army now, in the midst of a difficult war? The U.S. defense budget has increased some 40% since 2001, to almost half a trillion dollars, but military experts expect the funding to slow. Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey, who signed the order last March to implement the effort, says the need for it is obvious: "We need to free up resources so we can apply them to the operating side of the Army. We need to equip our soldiers better and faster." Optimistic projections claim the Army could be saving billions of dollars each year...
...competitive disadvantage by changing the way they charge companies for using bandwidth. Google has complained, for example, that a cable company could charge it much higher fees if it wants to run as fast as other competing sites. Bloggers warn that a broadband company could even restrict or slow down access to sites that express political viewpoints they disagree with. Cable and phone companies like BellSouth argue that since they?ve built these high-speed networks they should have the ability to charge higher rates for companies like Google (which is not exactly struggling financially) that use lots of bandwidth...
...these positive trends coexist with many signs that Russia is stumbling on the path toward free-market democracy - so much so that some U.S. and European legislators and human-rights groups want to kick it out of the G-8. Russia's postcommunist transition was always going to be slow and erratic, but what worries many experts now is that the direction of travel in many areas is reverse. U.S. pro-democracy organization Freedom House's annual country ratings show a steady decline in Russia's adherence to fair elections, representative government and press freedom. State-controlled companies already...
...allowing us to travel with greater speed, freedom and whim than our ancestors could ever have imagined, the Interstates changed how we experience movement through space and time. Not so long ago, when family vacations entailed days poking along in slow-moving cars on even slower roads, the journey ranked almost as high as the destination. To relieve the tedium, Dad made regular stops at places that now seem hopelessly quaint - alligator wrestling joints, tourist cabins, and dinosaur-themed miniature golf-courses...