Word: slow
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...President's policy toward that budget deficit could prove to be a major factor for the economies of Asia. If the deficit is steadily reduced, growth in the States might slow and drag down Asian economies with it. But if the deficit continues to expand, the impact might be even worse. Beijing and Tokyo might lose interest in buying U.S. government bonds, which would speed up the deterioration in the value of the dollar and exert painful pressure on the global economy. "If the U.S. continues with the current fiscal policy, the chance of a dollar crisis is high," says...
...Tiao needs all the help she can get. Just finding the right blank can be a huge challenge on a puzzle with tens of thousands of blanks. Tiao’s friends often help her out when they are in the room. But work is understandably slow-going...
Like other Harvard institutions, final clubs are slow to change. “I think it will happen, but it will just happen slowly,” Halpern says...
...another election ripe for dispute was hardly the intent when our elected legislators passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002, earmarking some $4 billion to streamline voting standards and allow states to modernize their voting systems. Although they passed the act, Congress and the White House were slow, perhaps recklessly so, in setting up the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to implement it. So while states helped themselves to funding for new voting machines, the EAC developed no national standards for using them. Likewise, HAVA mandated provisional voting so that nobody would be refused a ballot for the wrong...
Were NBC's woes to go on for an extended period, they could slow the continuing, rapid ascent of Zucker, who in his three- plus years of running NBC's entertainment programming failed to develop any real comedy or drama breakout hits. Since May he has overseen all NBC Universal's vast TV properties, including news channels CNBC and MSNBC; thriving cable networks like Bravo, USA and Sci-Fi; upstart Spanish-language network Telemundo; and the Universal TV studios. Along with his business-side colleague Randy Falco, Zucker is considered a favorite to succeed NBC Universal CEO Bob Wright...