Word: slow
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...miles long. But most troops aren't just looking for him specifically. Instead, they are patrolling the border against incursions by Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters. Rather than trek through the vast mountainous region hoping for a chance encounter, the U.S. command is now engaged in a slow but probably more effective tactic of trying to win over Pashtun villagers by digging wells and giving away tractors and generators. The hope is that someday a villager might trust the Americans enough to reveal some useful intelligence about bin Laden or other enemies...
...junior is a member of groups such as the basketball team’s “Leprechaun Legion,” and even more predictably “Muck Fichigan.” Stovall additionally lists “Rap, R&B, Hip Hop, slow jams, panty droppin [and] old school” as his favorite music.The Bible is his favorite book...
Lyrically, Banks sticks to what he knows. Themes of abandonment and ambiguous malaise still mingle melodramatically with weird, sometimes grotesque imagery. The prechorus of the first single, “Slow Hands,” covers much of the lyrical landscape: “Can’t you see what you’ve done to my heart and soul?/This is a wasteland now.” The chorus of the tense, agitated “Length of Love” is the odd mantra, “Combat salacious removal.” And the closer...
...despite all of this activity, I want to return to the primacy of the curricular review, Allston and the other policy issues on the table. Advocacy work is inherently difficult because the council has a limited arsenal of effective bargaining tools, the process is slow and cumbersome and many students take little interest in the issues. These challenges must not dissuade us, however; we have to remember that even those issues that do not immediately have an impact on campus will have ongoing ramifications for years to come. Individually, we only spend four years at Harvard?...
...would be required to say: "This is Marie in Rabat." Webhelp worries that such a measure would confuse customers and scare off potential corporate clients. "It could really hurt us," says Jousset. "Over the long term, such protectionist steps never work. But over the next five years it could slow the development." More than two years after the U.S. began worrying about the export of American jobs to lower-cost countries, Europe has finally woken up to the "offshoring" threat. European companies have been moving some manufacturing facilities abroad for a decade to capitalize on lower wages and to gain...