Word: slow
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Neither summer layoffs nor the departures of key seniors were enough to slow the Harvard and Radcliffe heavyweight crew teams, which returned to their winning ways on Sunday afternoon with victories in the Stonehurst Capital Invitational Regatta, co-hosted by the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology on the Genesee River...
Usually, D.C. has been a place slow to change because of the federal government’s death grip on it. While the federal government, unsurprisingly, is willing to give the District money, it’s less politically expedient to use D.C. as a testing ground for innovative changes that might improve the poor quality of life of its majority-black residents...
...made a donation to Al Gore's presidential bid in 2000 (as did his wife). And even though Wilson had given money to Bush that year as well, the hard-liners believed his instincts matched those of most people at the CIA--moderate, internationalist and, above all, too slow to see the enemy forming over the horizon...
...over authority to the current Governing Council, which has too many questionable Iraqi exiles like Ahmed Chalabi and too little input from the Grand Ayatullah Ali Sistani, the most powerful Shi'a cleric, or the general Sunni populace. The Bush Administration's chosen path is more responsible but too slow--write a new constitution, have a referendum on that constitution and then hold general elections. Colin Powell has set a six-month target for the constitution, but nobody believes it can be done that quickly. Political reality may dictate that this second option will be scrapped in favor...
...election is a lot like a movie blockbuster - a fast, thrilling spectacle that keeps people riveted to their seats. Government is a lot like a 12-hour Swedish documentary on the mating habits of elephant seals - slow, grueling, with endless complications and a desperate need for subtitles. We know Arnold Schwarzengger can handle an action blockbuster, and now it?s clear he can handle an election, but is he ready for the challenge of governing the largest state in the nation and the sixth biggest economy in the world? California is about to find out. If he succeeds, Arnold will...