Word: slow
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...agency owner David Güggenbuhl, who worked with Chinese doctors to develop Bluetrail, says, "One requirement was that these exercises could be done in a suit and tie without looking ridiculous." Certainly, nobody snickers when local architect David Marquardt, 38, drops his briefcase and performs a series of slow, graceful movements. And after finishing the 10th of 16 activities, he declares, "I feel like my body and spirit are in unison...
...even after Madrid, Europe has been slow to respond. The office of the European terrorist czar, created after 3/11, has just three employees. "Often we need attacks to get serious," says Stefano Dambruoso, Italy's top antiterrorism magistrate until last year. Until recently, the British were notoriously indulgent of hate-spewing imams and the fanatics who worshipped at their mosques. "It took years to convince the British authorities that they had a significant homegrown Islamic threat," says a recently retired FBI counterterrorism official. "I remember being there in 1999, and one of our guys joked, 'If you don't start...
...past two weeks, I’ve spent the majority of my evening commute home stuck in traffic. Each day, the 20-minute drive down the stretch of the West Side Highway separating my house in the Bronx from midtown Manhattan turns into an hour-and-a-half of slow moving frustration...
...greens, notably over cleaning the Hudson River of PCBs, a toxic chemical GE dumped, legally, for decades before the practice was banned in 1977. Since Welch retired in 2001, however, Immelt has been remaking GE. He recently announced a restructuring, paring 11 operating divisions to six. He has pruned slow-growth businesses like insurance and loaded up on enterprises with brighter prospects, such as media and medical devices. Now, he's giving environmental products a starring role--pledging to invest in green technologies, clean up company operations and promote GE as a conglomerate even Sierra Clubbers might like...
...Almosawe complained that financial assistance has been slow to materialize, saying that the U.S. has been particularly unhelpful...