Word: slowness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some customers will see their monthly payments adjusted to no more than 38% of their gross income. The companies, now under government control, plan to reduce interest rates and give borrowers more time to pay off their mortgages. Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are modifying loans to slow or stop foreclosures...
...China A Chinese New Deal? With its GDP growth rate projected to slow from 12% in 2007 to less than 9% in 2009, China announced a $586 billion stimulus to buoy the economy. While much of the spending is not new, the plan is meant to sustain the country's recent prosperity--and reinforce its political stability...
...album. “Welcome to Thr33 Ringz Intro” provides an enjoyable minute of T-Pain’s mediocre rapping abilities over a bouncing beat with just a hint of background synths. “Ringleader Man” continues things with a strong and slow throb that is impossible not to sway back and forth to. Similar beats, similar lyrics, and similar blandness take hold of the remaining tracks, with a few enjoyable exceptions interspersed throughout. I dare you to play any 30 seconds of “Freeze,” “Blowing...
...According to a press release purporting to be from the group that organized the stunt, the "special editions" required six months of planning, 1.2 million papers were distributed and thousands of people participated in the process. The stunt also included a website - which is frequently overloaded and therefore slow - where users could read fake stories, click on ads and watch animated versions of those ads printed in the paper. Here's the text for a few dubious ones...
...when people based their presidential choices on whimsical criteria like “Someone I’d Like To Have A Beer With” or “I Couldn’t Figure Out How the Ballot Worked,” everyone laughed incredulously at the slow but steady stream of “Bushisms.” Little did we know that gems like “I know how hard it is to put food on your family” were only the beginning of an eight-year laugh riot! But after eight years...