Word: slow
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...want to slow Penn down,” captain Jason Norman said. “If we can get them to run through their offense and take some time, we’ll be fine...
...renovation plans are focused on maintaining the traditional aspects of the theater while remedying the stage’s faulty technical facilities, and other evidence of the slow deterioration of the Holyoke Street house...
...dance floor, against their wishes. Moreover, the media’s long belated reporting of Corker’s appointment is sloppy journalism, reflecting just how eager media outlets are to perpetuate stereotypes of Harvard students that are utterly untrue in the name of filling space on a slow news day. The truth of the matter is that Corker fills the role of event consultant and coordinator. His job is to help students who have event plans make their visions come to fruition, not to teach Harvardians to do keg-stands...
...Rapid Reaction Required I was appalled by President George W. Bush's slow response to the tsunami disaster in South Asia [Jan. 10]. By waiting until three days after the event to make a public statement, he appeared cold and indifferent. Bush will be asking Congress to come up with billions of dollars this year for the Iraq war and related costs there and in Afghanistan. His initial pledge of $15 million in humanitarian aid was an insult. Only after days of criticism did he increase the pledge to $350 million. The U.S. is the wealthiest nation in the world...
...past propped up struggling SOEs with loans from state banks. But China's banking system is awash in bad loans, so now Beijing prefers companies to raise capital by going public. "Stock markets should be a vigorous entrepreneurial way to promote capitalism, but China uses them to manage the slow decline of state companies," says Matthew Rudolph, a fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs in Hanover, New Hampshire, who is writing a book on China's markets. Investors "are just helping the government manage domestic politics," he adds...