Word: slow
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...knowingly taking a position in defiance of his church, which opposes his state's law. The church, in turn, is joining hands with disability-rights activists, who see assisted suicide as a first step to euthanasia. Even many doctors, who understand better than most what a horror a slow death can be, have trouble with the idea of speeding up the process. The American Medical Association remains opposed to any aid-in-dying laws, and the group speaks for a lot of its members. "When a doctor writes a prescription for lethal drugs," says Portland, Ore., radiologist Kenneth Stevens...
...most fundamental limitation to life in the desert is water, and no matter how sensitively houses are located aboveground, everyone is still drawing from the same precious supply of groundwater. In the long term, overuse of groundwater means slow death for desert plants, whose roots are unable to reach down far enough to sustain them. When plants die, animals run out of food and shelter--a process that is often noticed only after it's too late...
...backing up is to have that extra copy, should some disaster strike your machine. On the other hand, moving your media collection off your local drive will free up space, and possibly improve your PC's overall performance. A hard drive that's close to maxing out can really slow things down, notes Omid Rahmat, publisher of tomshardware.com, a how-to site for the more tech savvy user...
From the stands, press box, and bench alike, it was apparent that the forward was a step slow, a pace behind. Said teammate and captain Noah Welch, “we knew he was battling at about 75, 80 percent...
Ryan Lannon hunched over his knees near the goal, his arms stiff, his head down. Welch traced slow, defeated rings around the left faceoff circle. Grumet-Morris stood frozen in the crease, motionless as Wildcats celebrated behind him, until one by one, the Harvard skaters surrounded the goaltender...