Word: slower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most respects, he said, the University has overcome a slower start to this giving season with a banner performance...
...that was it for supernatural performances. Since then no one, not Evans and not anyone else, has lowered any of her three great records. At the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, the winning time for the women's 400 free was 4:07.18, nearly 4 sec. slower than Janet's time at Seoul. And the winner was not Janet Evans. She came in second in 4:07.37, behind a relatively unknown German, Dagmar Hase...
...touch slower than her 17-year-old self, it's clear that she has not lost her extraordinary competitive toughness. She endorses Cadillac cars (as well as Speedo swim gear, Ray Ban sunglasses, PowerBars and Xerox), and in one ridiculous TV commercial, a deep-voiced announcer growls--as kettle drums roll, engines rumble and the screen flashes footage of Janet surging through the water--"She believes in controlled aggression!" Not really. What she really believes in is greasy-spoon breakfasts. But in mid-December, not quite three months before the U.S. team-selection trials, she tore ligaments in her left...
...slower summer pace allows students to take advantage of many things they would not have time for during the year. Doing things during the summer is less of a hassle; the annoying people who get in the way during the year are off being annoying somewhere else--like Hyannis, Cape Cod, Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard...
...ironic, because this is exactly what the right wing used to say about the Arabs, that they're not mature enough to make peace. The election of Netanyahu paradoxically shows the same thing, that most people are afraid of the peace process. They want it to be much slower. It's very natural, though, because for people like us to suddenly open ourselves to our enemies, to make concessions, to take risks, it's against...