Word: slower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rowers held on to win by .4 seconds, and their time of 5:38.1 was only five-hundredths of a second slower than the all-time fastest Charles River time, set by Brown...
...found that I was on a little bit of a faster rhythm, and I was impatient when things went slowly or inefficiently," Nordell says, although he admits the slower pace of thought and conversation could be appealing. "It was wonderful to gradually get back into casual talking and thinking...
Finally, though, unity became outdated. The evangelical population, although slower than the rest of the country to adopt the post-Vietnam adversarial spirit, caught up and produced a generation for whom, Noll says, "ideological combat has become de rigueur." The movement's energy, once generated by the fervor of Christian witness, appears now to flow more from the red-hot political engagement of such Christian Right warriors as broadcast executive Pat Robertson; Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, his protege; and the less renowned but perhaps more influential James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family. Weakening the Graham clout further...
...Harvard provide an enlightening detour to those who would otherwise race through unknowingly, rather than penalizing those who are not eager to sprint. Let its education enrich our character and not merely put a stamp on the person we have always planned to be. Let a slower Harvard pace make the runners pause for reflection rather than having the rapidly-moving pack leave the walkers out of breath...
This isn't a trivial matter of cleanliness. Every time you install a new program, it adds extra files to your system's operating environment. And each of these files, in turn, makes your computer slower and less powerful...