Word: slow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...increasing acidity of ocean water. “Americans need the greatest change in lifestyle, so there is an incentive to not believe that global warming is a consequence of human actions,” he said. “But we should realize that we can and must slow this down...
...Music, Palace Brothers, and Bonnie Billy, as well as moonlighting as an actor in indie films like “Wendy and Lucy” and “Old Joy.” Oldham’s music laces granola folk with violins and soulful vocals to create slow, poignant rhythms. One of his albums, “The Letting Go,” was recorded in Reykjavík, Iceland, and indeed, many of his songs transplant this glacial desolation to the American landscape of front porches and dark country nights...
Even if you're willing to grant him the glasses, there's still one problem. For digital 3-D to work, the movie theater must first convert from analog to digital--that is, from reels of film to data feeds. Theaters have been slow to do it, citing the expense and security. Disney chairman Dick Cook is credited with breaking the initial logjam with Chicken Little in 2005. About 75 theaters converted to digital to show the film, and a surprising thing happened: 3-D theaters reported three to four times the box-office gross as those that showed...
...said. “It was like a section that’s a free-for-all.” Between 2004 and 2006, with 12 other committees exploring different areas of the undergraduate experience, and no one clearly in charge of the main Gen Ed committee, progress was slow. In January 2006, the committee finally agreed on a distribution requirement that would include all classes in the FAS course catalog, Simmons said, because it was simply the only thing they could agree on: a “common denominator...
Harvard administrators have readjusted budget planning assumptions for the next two years to keep spending in line with expectations for a slow economic recovery. The payout from the endowment will decline by 8 percent in dollar value for the next fiscal year and is projected to fall by at least another 8 percent from 2010 to 2011—meaning that the payout in two years will have shrunk by over 15 percent from this year, the University’s Chief Financial Officer Daniel S. Shore said yesterday. The new budget guidance marks a departure from University instructions issued...