Word: slow
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...report released Jan. 13, ratings agency Moody's said that Greece, along with Portugal, was likely to suffer a "slow death" as it uses more and more of its income to pay off debt. With the cost of that debt heading north, Greek banks could face further problems. "It's like they have a bomb in their hands," says investor Melissaris. "If rates keep climbing, it'll explode." (See the worst business deals...
More important, these bulk customers don't use wholesalers to source generic products, which are expected to replace 80% of the revenue from brand-name drugs by 2015. "Generics mean slow top-line growth but are ultimately much more profitable for wholesalers," says Richard Close, an analyst for Jefferies & Co. "By focusing on the big chains, Cardinal had basically ceded generics to McKesson and AmerisourceBergen...
...damage done to Toyota by its recall of more than 5.3 million autos is accumulating: U.S. sales dropped 16% in January, and the company's stock surrendered $21 billion of value in a single week. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) threatened the company with fines for being slow to react to the problems--a pair of faults that can cause sudden, dangerous acceleration--even though the DOT has been criticized for the same reason. Lawyers, who are never slow to react, are swarming. One class action alleges that jammed accelerators on Toyotas have caused 16 deaths and 243 injuries...
...read Slow Motion, her memoir recounting a misspent youth as the cokehead mistress of a rich creep and the car accident that nearly robbed her of both parents, you know Shapiro has a heightened sense of drama. She is wiser now but still can't stop obsessing over what could have been, whether it be a medical crisis her son survived as an infant or a terrorist attack. (She put her Brooklyn brownstone on the market a few days after Sept...
Humans measure threats by intentionality, immorality, imminence, and instantaneousness, he said, explaining that global warming—a slow-moving, amoral, unintentional event—possesses none of these traits...