Word: slowness
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...write off Aceh yet. Thanks largely to four weekly flights from Kuala Lumpur operated by the budget carrier AirAsia, tourists are trickling into Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, and for good reason. The city itself is leafy and slow-paced, while Acehnese people are proud, hospitable and keen to make up for years of isolation. Drive out along the west coast and you'll find white-sand bays studded with jungle-clad islands, beaches where 900-kg turtles lay their eggs, and forests where tigers prowl and gibbons peer down from the trees...
...beside "decolonization, election of the President by universal suffrage, abolition of the death sentence and legalization of abortion" in the list of national accomplishments. Yet a mere seven months after making those lofty comparisons, Sarkozy this week decided to bury his vaunted tax on carbon emissions designed to help slow global warming. The move was the first policy fatality in the wake of the March 21 regional elections that handed leftist opponents a landslide victory...
...with the opening of the National People's Congress in Beijing on March 5, draws attention to debt levels being incurred by local governments forging headlong into massive infrastructural and development projects. Even as it was being distributed, Premier Wen Jiabao was telling NPC delegates that the authorities would slow both lending and new construction in 2010, and place additional curbs on speculative property investment. A mortgage discount for first-time property buyers - which made a fixed, 5% 20-year mortgage available for just above 4% - has already been eliminated, and lending standards for buyers looking at second and third...
...Harvard’s success on Saturday resulted from more than just its high-powered offense. Defensively, the Crimson was able to slow down the Pioneers, holding its opponent to an attack rate below 30 percent...
...think when we lose our legs a little bit, we slow down, but it’s to be expected, and they finished the game,” Harvard coach Lisa Miller said. “There was a point there where they could have been like, ‘Uh oh,’ and I don’t think they [panicked]. They finished the game, which is a good thing...