Word: slow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...GORE Slow and steady tortoise to Clinton's hare, he becomes the most consequential V.P. in modern history...
...deal at the negotiating table. (Another round of multinational talks on the North's nukes is due to start in Beijing next week). Pyongyang's charm offensive in the South could have another ulterior motive. Earlier this year when Washington started to lose patience with the slow pace of nuclear talks, Pyongyang may have decided it needed an "insurance policy," says Peter Beck, head of the International Crisis Group in Seoul. "They have got to make sure South Korea is not going to jump on board with the U.S. and pursue sanctions" if the talks fail...
...ever a film worked with the slow precision of a pressure cooker, it is Wolf Creek. For its first half hour or so, the film proceeds leisurely, almost blithely, as it follows the journey across the Outback of three young backpackers from the beaches of Broome, Western Australia, to the meteorite site of Wolfe Creek, with its kilometer-wide crater and ghostly landscape. When the backpackers' watches mysteriously stop, as does their car's engine, we could be back in the moody territory of Picnic at Hanging Rock, especially when the star of that film, John Jarratt, shows...
...eradicated, there must be cooperation from the communities they shame. Politicians tell us Muslims in Australia are as peaceful and law-abiding as any other group, but behave as though they don't quite believe it. Those on the outside have been suspicious of Australian Muslims, and slow to engage them; they have been slow to draw new police officers and intelligence agents from among them. That oversight will take a long time to correct. But the prospect of attracting Muslim recruits will be fatally diminished if they can be persuaded that the country's democratic principles are entirely disposable...
...timidly surrendered, with consequences yet unknown. It's fair to assume politicians believe that they are acting in Australia's best interests, and that they need to act quickly. But the war against terror will be a marathon struggle, and it doesn't much matter if they were slow off the mark. The country's leaders need to reconsider these ill-conceived, hastily drawn laws. Whatever they think they are protecting, it is not the Australian way of life...