Word: slow
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...dumbest thing I ever did." (He pleaded guilty and received three years' probation.) "That was the turning point for me," he recalls. "It was like, O.K., this can all go away fast. You work hard for years, and it can all go away in a night. Slow down, big boy. Think...
...National Venture Capital Association's Jeanne Metzger. "Now we've leveled off comfortably, at about $4 billion a quarter." Biotech is the main beneficiary, having received $873 million in the third quarter, unseating software and reaching the top for the first time in seven years. New money has been slow to flow into venture-capital firms, but that shouldn't hurt young companies hungry for funding. The venture capitals didn't lose it all in the bust. They are still sitting on $84 billion in capital...
Lower U.S. interest rates have also led fixed-income investors to seek out countries offering higher rates. And the swelling budget deficit, which threatens to slow U.S. economic growth, has cast doubt on the greenback's outlook just as many overseas economies are starting to rebound. Says Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist at HSBC USA bank: "The dollar is in a long-term decline...
...This year, to be honest with you, I got off to a real slow start,” Welch said. “In the Brown game, I didn’t play my game and getting benched the second game kinda threw me off a little...
...political plan is a major roll of the dice for Washington. The harsh reality of the escalating insurgency has forced the Bush administration to abandon its program for direct U.S. supervision of a slow and thorough transition to Iraqi democracy. Instead, sovereign authority and control of the transition will be placed in the hands of a government chosen by Iraqis - even if the "electorate" is confined to elites vetted by Iraqis previously chosen by the U.S. to run various local, provincial and national councils...