Word: slow
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...Brattle Street. “Summer is our slowest time because kids aren’t here for school,” Liza says, although she claims that that “isn’t based on Harvard clientele.” On a “slow day” the store sells around 70 pairs of jeans, the majority of which are over $100. “Once you find a pair of jeans that fits you, well, you’ll spend that much,” Liza says. To the uninitiated shopper...
Although Bloom insisted in an interview prior to the reading that he would not pack the capacious old church, he managed to come close and filled the puritan hall with his slow, methodical voice as he read from his latest book and spoke eagerly about literature and his life...
...Brattle Street. “Summer is our slowest time because kids aren’t here for school,” Liza says, although she claims that that “isn’t based on Harvard clientele.” On a “slow day” the store sells around 70 pairs of jeans, the majority of which are over $100. “Once you find a pair of jeans that fits you, well, you’ll spend that much,” Liza says. To the uninitiated shopper...
...standing naked in my shower. My roommates are asleep and the suite is quiet—so quiet that turning the water on full blast would be offensive. My upturned mouth receives the slow drip of water from the showerhead and I swish it around, mixing it with the residue of Long Island ice tea. I can feel the grainy sugar slide from my scalp, down my sideburns, around my cheek, into my mouth. I’m tired, but I don’t go to sleep. I stand there, naked as the day I was born, laughing...
...billion-dollar business, J&J alienated many of its cardiologist customers by charging high prices and failing to develop a new generation of product. When competitors like Guidant and Boston Scientific came out with their own stents, customers were eager to abandon J&J (which has admitted being slow to innovate but denies that its pricing was at fault). Says Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck business school and author of Why Smart Executives Fail: "They knew what was going on; their customers were telling them." Like so many other companies that end up stumbling, they just weren...