Word: slowness
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...failure. Speed is everything, since the survey tests automatic associations. When respondents are told to link the desirable traits to whites and the undesirable ones to blacks, their fingers fairly fly on the keys. When the task is switched, with whites being labeled failures and blacks called glorious, fingers slow considerably, a sure sign the brain is struggling...
...progressed, our ability to carry out our murderous plans advanced along with it. "For the same aggressive impulse, we can do a lot more killing," says psychologist John Dovodio of Yale University. The bad news is that wisdom, the human faculty that trumps all this, can be very slow to arrive. The good news is that with enough time, both individuals and the species as a whole do acquire...
Things look dark. Today, the whole globe faces a food crisis, an energy crisis, and a climate crisis. As the American “slow-motion train-wreck,” as Harvard Business School Dean Jay O. Light termed the Wall Street emergency, accelerates toward derailment, we now also face a financial crisis. Most dangerous, and inextricably connected to the credit crunch, is the penumbra of one more cataclysm: the “development crisis...
...Indeed, at that time, Orleans was right. Duke was an abysmal 0-12 in 2006, Northwestern went 4-8, and Stanford finished 1-11. But with the slow redistribution of talent taking place in college football, those teams appear to be on the rise; Stanford is 3-3 this year and upset No. 1 Southern California last season, Northwestern is 5-0 and ranked No. 22 in the nation, and Duke is 3-2. Vanderbilt, another highly regarded academic institution, is 5-0 and ranked No. 13 in the nation despite playing in what is regarded as the most difficult...
...casual heads-up on what skill they could help me perfect before the big day. Grateful for this courtesy, my mother anticipated a suggestion that I might put a little extra time into, say, parallel parking. Three point turns, maybe? Hell, even “coming to a slow stop” would have been less shameful than what the instructor actually had to say: “I think Katie might benefit from more practice on her right hand turns...