Word: slower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College and the University have been slower to change...
...president who can play both the role of the head of state and the head executive well. Usually, the president is one or the other. And in this age of photo-ops and soundbites, the charismatic person with the witty aside comes across much better than a person slower of speech, but with a good grasp of real issues. Furthermore, there is something a bit disturbing that the definition of Americana hinges on one political figure. For instance, if you were a Democrat, would you really appreciate that a Republican serves as the symbol of your country...
...Russian government like our own was very slow to engage in this program. Our government was slow, and Russia was even slower," he said...
...leak was slower, however, the popping would be slower too, more like the subtle discomfort one feels in an elevator or an airplane. To his relief, Foale could feel that the leak was indeed a slow...
...librettist exhorts us, too, to "restrain those who fondly court their bane," and scolds those spending their lives "In frantic mirth and childish play/ In dance, and revels night and day..." The music during this mercifully short third section is much slower, perhaps taking its cue from Jennens' admonition that we "Keep...still the same in look and gait/ Easy, cheerful and sedate." This final section is certainly sedate, almost verging even on morose, culminating in the final couplet of the work: a grandiose choral motto, "Thy pleasures, Moderation, give/ In them alone we truly live." Moderation is not quite...