Word: slowness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...include pension funds that bought the company's unsecured bonds." Will a court have more pity for that multitude than it would the few large firms that were Chrysler's creditors? Probably not, if justice is blind. Still, GM's list of bondholders is long enough so it could slow the pace at which a judge would be able make his way through the thicket of their claims. (See Chrysler's Top 10 Moments...
...confidence of much of the Conservative Party over European policy, did she ever have to worry about whether her foot soldiers in the House of Commons would back her on anything important. Obama has no such luxury. By comparison with the British political system, that of the U.S. is slow, messy, fragmented and remarkably open to lobbying by powerful interest groups. That does not make it easy to get things done...
...Special Seasons. If there's one thing you see a lot of in TCM's basic collection of old movies, it's white people. When blacks and Asians were depicted, they were usually seen as slow or wicked menials and often played by whites in blackface or with spirit gum on their eyes. TCM has wisely annotated the old era by devoting prime-time months to the Hollywood images of blacks, Asians, gays and, in May, Hispanics, the programs curated and introduced by specialists in the fields...
...regularly complain about (and often try to avoid) overcrowded and understaffed public clinics and hospitals, where patients sometimes have to bring their own medicines and bandages if they want treatment. It's one reason partly why Mexicans tend to wait too long to seek treatment - another reason Mexico seemed slow off the swine-flu mark - and why they tend to rely on home-made treatments instead of doctor's orders...
Alain Passard's decision in 2001 to transform his three-star Paris restaurant l'Arpège - famous for its slow-cooked T-bones, lamb and duck - into a temple to the vegetable raised many an eyebrow in the world of haute cuisine. For the erstwhile master rôtisseur, however, it constituted a culinary rebirth. "Vegetables were a resurrection for me," Passard says. In seeking to define "the first vegetable haute cuisine," Passard has since created such signature dishes as beetroot in croûte de sel and onion flambé with pears and praline sauce. But perhaps...