Word: slow
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There's a natural longing to find the upside in the downturn. A college-admissions officer, watching families reassess their means and ends, suggests that maybe the insane competitiveness will recede. The yoga instructor says living more simply relaxes us, as if the entire country needs to slow its breathing. The buyer at the used-car lot feels both frugal and green: that hatchback isn't used, it's "pre-owned," and this counts as recycling. The discount shoppers view their task as a scavenger hunt and take a certain pride in finding the bargain, cutting the deal...
...Stack-Babich, who had already started to make up for a slow day at the plate with a highlight-reel leaping catch in right field earlier in the game, shut down Yale in the seventh and final frame to nail down the save and the first win of the day for the Crimson...
...season, but Harvard fell on hard luck against consistently nationally-ranked Princeton. “We did not play the way we needed to compete, and we paid the price,” junior defender Delia Pais wrote in an e-mail. “We started slow, played slow, ended slow. It was a game we just didn’t show up for.” While the Crimson offense boasts the top two scorers in the Ivy League—sophomore Jess Halpern and senior Kaitlin Martin, who have 36 and 34 goals, respectively?...
...slow roller to first, Reynolds covers but Zailskas makes a bad throw to first. Run scores...
...native of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, said he believes that being vocal about the issues in Moldova will improve conditions. “This might be an important turning point for Moldova, an opportunity to actually change things,” Pamfil said. “The West has been slow to push for that. What’s happening in Moldova is one thing, but the voices that come from...Washington are also very important.” Harvard Kennedy School student Bakhtiyar Hajiyev said he attended the rally to show solidarity with Moldova as well as with his home...