Word: slow
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...businesses and dozens of public buildings went up in smoke. And 82% of respondents in a recent poll were skeptical that the government's plans would be enough to fix the problem; 86% expect future outbursts of violence. That sense of futility is what consigned the projects to slow decay in the first place. "People make the mistake of talking about a banlieue problem; it's really a problem of French society as a whole," says Marie-Louise Fort, mayor of Sens - where one-third of the town's 38,000 population lives in public housing. "The ills...
...would like to nominate Carlo Petrini, who was the founder of the slow-food movement. That organized rebuke of fast-food culture began in Italy and has since grown into an international force for pleasant living, sustainable agriculture, heritage animal protection and even cultural survival. It is still largely under the mainstream's radar, but its trade shows in Torino, Italy, regularly attract 140,000 people...
...progress on any of those fronts. Still, the two pledged closer cooperation and the atmospherics were cordial, if not friendly. The two men had met five times previously and have a good working relationship, and Administration officials portrayed the improvement in relations between the two nations as slow and steady...
...didn’t expect to beat him. When you add juggling, though, it can really slow you down, if nothing else, because it takes so much focus to continue juggling...
...continues that “with Hugh’s character there’s the cynical, world-weary guy who just thinks everything sucks.” Ultimately Weitz is proud of his work, but does “expect people to complain—depending on how slow the news week is.” But the political spin of the movie is really secondary, according to Weitz, and he goes so far as to call it a “cultural comedy.” Citing comparison to early Mel Brooks, Weitz says that...