Word: slow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...said Clinton's proposed commission to investigate the slow governmental response to Hurricane Katrina was "unnecessary" because "we know what caused it"-a veiled reference to white racism and Republican neglect. He said the African Americans in prison were "victims of poverty" and so were the African-American single mothers of children born out of wedlock. And then, just for fun, he added that blacks need to investigate the "ravages of the Democratic Party and see if there's anything worth salvaging...
...approach has been slow in coming, but the team hopes that it will lead to a slew of goals during Ivy League play...
Even though the Crimson started out the game with a lot of energy—everyone seemed to slow down after Altchek’s goal. The team began passing a lot and moving the ball back to the defense instead of pushing it forward to the opposing goal...
...that no one had taken the initiative to spearhead the necessary changes. Michael D. Brown, the embattled former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director, is clearly one such specific individual whose guilt was exposed in the wake of the response. And, most importantly, the federal government’s shockingly slow and disorganized response to a disaster of such enormity is worthy of the strongest public reproof. With enough blame to spread all over, any attempt to spin it solely in one direction is misguided...
...ambitious interior minister who heads the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), yet regularly issues pithy calls for a total "rupture" of the status quo politics of President Jacques Chirac and his current prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and a more radical free-market agenda. Merkel's slow descent into parity with the Social Democrats, says political scientist Dominique Reynie´, is "bad news for Sarkozy. It turns out he's making the same mistake as Merkel: talking about a 'rupture' in a country that is afraid...