Word: slower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...machines run virtually all popular Macintosh software packages without a hitch. But, unless an application is recompiled specifically for the Power Macintosh (in "native" mode, as Apple evangelists call it), the new machines may actually run the program slower than their 68040-based Quadra and Centris counterparts...
When the speed limit on interstate highways was lowered to 55 in the last decade, for instance, traffic fatalities were drastically reduced. Driving slower did appear to have a significant effect on the harm to society as a whole, in terms of the loss of human life. And yet, recent years have seen an effort by states to take back the right to impose their own speed limits because of what many took to be an unreasonable restriction on the way in which individuals chose to live their lives; specifically, the manner in which they chose to drive...
Student costs have risen at a slower rate each of the last four years, Knowles said. Last year, costs grew by 5.8 percent, he said...
...playin both Mopar and Fat Day, Kelefa T. Sanneh '97plays in Mopar and Hypertrophie Shitstraw, Matt A.Donahue '97 plays in Toddler and Hypertrophie andAdam E. Rosen '95 plays in Mopar and Neverlovers."The main difference" between playing withNeverlovers as opposed to Mopar, says Rosen, "isthe songs are a lot slower so it's less physicallytaxing." Rosen says he must exercise regularly to"build up stamina" to play for the more fast-pacedMopar...
...reverse happened with Helium: as more and more people showed up to their gigs, the songs got longer and slower. A bouncy college-radio favorite, "American Jean," vanished from their live set, and was replaced by complicated works in which the incidental sound of Mary Timony's fingers sliding along the guitar neck, or the slow boom of mallets on drums, might be as important to a song as the sequence of chords and riffs, On a good night, the effect was cathartic, hypnotic; on a bad night (which mostly meant a night with a bad sound engineer...