Word: slowness
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...Both reports acknowledge that the slow and uneven political progress in Iraq remains fragile and could jeopardize the prospects for long-term success. But the Pentagon study cites a slew of indicators suggesting that things are moving in the right direction. The GAO counters by saying, in effect, that the Pentagon's assessment is little more than a house of cards built upon the shifting sands of Iraq's internal political conflicts. Even a house of cards, the GAO implies, can appear stable in a snapshot...
...will just as certainly use the GAO report as a stiletto to puncture the Administration's - and McCain's - contention that the troop "surge" is bringing victory in Iraq closer by the day. "Iraq has made considerable progress in the political and diplomatic arenas, but future progress may be slow and uneven," the Pentagon report concluded. "Moreover, Iraq is pursuing this endeavor surrounded by neighbors that have not fully committed themselves to its success" - a charge the Pentagon could as easily have directed at war critics back home...
This is good news for the survival of the Communion and bad news for the resolution of its tensions. It may slow down the defection of conservative Episcopal parishes, but probably won't stop it. It is also an object lesson for anyone who believes predictions of rapid change in a Communion whose strength former Archbishop Desmond Tutu reportedly described thusly: "We meet...
Down 6-0 just seconds into the third chukker, Yale rebounded from its slow start to steal the momentum, exploding for five unanswered goals. Spreading the ball around and following up teammates consistently leaving the ball behind them, three of the four Bulldog players posted goals. Rising senior Michael Losak started things off, and native Englishman David Ashby— Yale’s substitute, who was filling in for the recently injured Bulldog Robert Burk—added two scores. Unfortunately for Yale, time was not on its side, as the horn sounded just seconds after recent graduate Adam...
...emphasis, of course, being on well-run. Unfortunately, many luxury brand sites are too glitzy for their own good. Off-key efforts to replicate an in-store experience are usually overly reliant on Flash technology and needlessly saturated with music and videos. The result is sites that are slow, clunky, difficult to navigate - and potentially image-tarnishing. "Most online affluent shoppers don't want all that," Bracewell-Lewis says. Usually they're looking for a specific item or manufacturer and don't want to dig through layers of Flash images...