Word: slow
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...February, the Obama Administration said it would pay mortgage-servicing companies to modify existing home loans to make them more affordable - an attempt to keep struggling borrowers in their houses and slow the escalating pace of foreclosures. In a way, the problem was an odd one. Lenders lose a lot of money during foreclosures and shouldn't need incentives to prevent them. The complexities of mortgage securities and the uncertainty surrounding future home prices and the economy, it seemed, were gumming up the system. A government push would get the wheels moving...
...Ibizan beach town than a Laotian village. But no, you didn't take a wrong turn at the Thai border. This is Vang Vieng - a farm town turned full-moon party, smack in the middle of a communist state. Once a resting place for opium-addled sojourners on sweet, slow tours of the East, Vang Vieng is now a haven of a different sort. It has become a popular stopover for gap-year students on Southeast Asia's well-trodden holiday trail - and erstwhile young bankers spending some of that severance pay. Drug dens have given way to beach huts...
...finally decide to leave Joey after everything that had happened? I was older, the children had grown up, I knew that nothing was going to change. My marriage just died a slow death. It was not good for the last couple of years. I got sober, I got stronger, I got well, and I knew it was time for me to move...
...journal, in which they record how much time they spend outside. The results can often be shocking, says Buzzell-Saltzman. "Some patients find they spend less than 15 to 30 minutes a day outside, other than walking to and from their cars," she says. Eco-therapists counsel patients to slow down and reconnect with nature by hiking, gardening or simply taking walks outdoors. Therapy sessions may also take place outdoors - in a park, for example - rather than inside yet another office. "We can use the natural world to be part of the healing process," says Chalquist. "We have to acknowledge...
...world's most populous nation about to get more crowded? Reports surfaced in international media last week that in an effort to slow the rapid graying of the workforce, couples in Shanghai - the country's most populous city - would be encouraged to have two kids if the parents are themselves only children. Shanghai officials have since denied any policy shift, saying this caveat is nothing new, but the contradictory reports are another manifestation of ongoing rumors that Beijing is rethinking the controversial one-child policy that has for the past three decades helped spur economic growth - but exacted a heavy...