Word: slowness
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Daniel Finkelstein, a British Conservative, recently wrote that his party went through a similar period of internal strife after Tony Blair kicked it out of office in 1997. More painful than all the mutual recriminations, he wrote, was the slow realization that nobody outside a small circle cared about any of these arguments. More than a decade later, Conservatives are still out of power in Britain...
Ford, relatively speaking, is loaded. The company still had $18.9 billion in cash at the end of the third quarter despite having burned through $7.7 billion in that period - half of which was tied to halting the production of F Series pickups because of slow sales. The company recently introduced a new version. Ford Credit, the company's finance arm, remains profitable because, unlike GM's 49%-owned bank, GMAC, it doesn't have a subprime mortgage business. On top of that, Ford can still draw on credit lines totaling $10.1 billion. "We are doing everything we can to create...
...cracking. The models seem to be running mostly off the feedback from the directors and each other. As models line up to practice their walks, Parent sits at the end to comment on each one. “Cross your feet more.” “Slow down a bit.” “Your head’s moving too much.” The music suddenly turns bass-heavy, and he shouts to the music director across the room, “We don’t know if we’re going...
...Some of our immediate goals for growth may have to pause, slow down, and be reconsidered in the shorter run,” Brandt said. “I’m going to be doing everything to make sure that students experiences remain characteristic of what I consider the overall excellence of Harvard...
Booze is a huge part of French Quarter life; I hesitate to call it "culture," because the sheer number of dead-drunk people gets depressing quickly. In fact, if you want to turn yourself off liquor for good, take a slow walk down Bourbon Street on a Saturday night. You'll see everyone from stumbling frat boys to gassed grannies slurping and burping the ubiquitous hurricane - the fruity rum concoction supposedly invented in New Orleans during World War II. But if you're going to drink, I'd recommend the chocolatey, dangerously drinkable local brew called Abita Turbodog. Turbodog...