Word: slowness
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...teams’ even play in the second and third periods couldn’t compensate for the slow start...
...think we started off slow, but at some point we realized we were running out of games,” Leblanc said. “We are right back in the race to finish in the top four and we’re excited for Princeton and a chance to come out on top in that series...
This is a radical shift in the fast-food world, where change is usually very slow to come. Fast-food hamburgers by and large are the same tasteless gray pucks now as they were during the Ford Administration; they just have better commercials and more toppings. Hot dogs are still exactly the same as they were during the Korean War. Nor has gnarly, underseasoned and overcrusted fried chicken improved much. But pizza is growing and breathing; it seems to have a special place in America. Maybe it's because pizza's the most domesticated of all our dishes, meant...
...that comes with unionization. The successful charters usually have longer school days and years, more intense efforts to guide student behavior, more creative or theme-oriented curriculums and more aggressive evaluation of teachers. Not all these schools work. Indeed, it can be argued that most states have been too slow to close down those that don't. But over time, the results seem to be improving dramatically. A recent study showed that students in New York City's charter schools - who are selected randomly, by lottery, and are 90% African American and Latino - have closed...
...Bank forecasts India's economy will surge 7.6% in 2010 and 8% in 2011, not far behind the 9% rate it predicts for China for each of those years. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, when speaking about his country's more plodding pace of economic policymaking, has said that "slow and steady will win the race." The Great Recession appears to have proved him right...