Word: slow
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...that Tenet shared this declaration with other government agencies. At the National Security Council, top terrorist hunter Richard Clarke was also on a quest to adopt an all-out action plan against bin Laden, and in 2001 he urged the new Administration to do so. But the Bush team slow-walked its strategy through an interagency review for seven months...
...current interest is as much medical as it is cultural. Meditation is being recommended by more and more physicians as a way to prevent, slow or at least control the pain of chronic diseases like heart conditions, AIDS, cancer and infertility. It is also being used to restore balance in the face of such psychiatric disturbances as depression, hyperactivity and attention-deficit disorder (ADD). In a confluence of Eastern mysticism and Western science, doctors are embracing meditation not because they think it's hip or cool but because scientific studies are beginning to show that it works, particularly for stress...
Editor-in-Chief Nancy E. Reardon said that when BCPD officers and Eagle EMS, a student emergency medical services group, were assisting a person injured in a car accident, local paramedics were slow to respond and claimed someone had called to cancel the ambulance...
...just left me questioning even more not only if I could justly be considered a life-long New Yorker, but also if I wanted to be. A stalled subway car and a crabby bus driver put me off of New York’s famed public transportation system. The slow-moving crowds on my morning walk down Wall Street left me wishing for an expansion of Central Park...
...almost flawless public performance is all the more admirable for hiding his true nature: short-fused, outspoken, archconservative ... When he is not busy escorting his wife, he can frequently be spied on the exclusive golf course in [the London suburb] of Dulwich ... He even launched a popular campaign against slow golfers with the argument: 'After all, the quicker you finish your round, the more time you will have for a pint...