Word: slowests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...charge against the President on Indonesian contributions. As proof, perhaps, that even a talk-show host can grow, Limbaugh acknowledged that the G.O.P.'s credibility is tainted by accusations of extremism and that the press is doing a fine job of making Clinton look like the world's slowest learner for not quickly producing every document associated with the affair...
...spent by Fidelity for new technology so the client will receive service faster, there is one area in which Fidelity still operates in the turtle mode. That is in getting your money to you. It took four days for me to get a disbursement check. Fidelity sent it the slowest way possible so the company could make more money on the float. Over a year's time, we are talking about real money. Fidelity could get the money into the clients' hands faster, but that doesn't add to its bottom line. Amazing, isn't it, that the company does...
...rising, and every week the stock market strains its own altimeter. Yet since 1991 some 2.5 million workers have lost jobs in corporate restructurings. Most have found new ones, but with thinner paychecks. Last week the Labor Department reported that wages and benefits in 1995 rose just 2.8%, the slowest pace in at least 15 years and scarcely enough to keep pace with inflation. One big reason: layoffs and other cost-cutting moves kept workers in line and their paycheck demands low. Meanwhile, corporate profits climbed 22% last year. In the face of numbers like those, the G.O.P. mantra--that...
...patch-up job over fundamental differences. No one who has ever seen the German War Memorial would think for one moment that Harvard University endorsed the cause of the Kaiser, nor would the World War II memorial to Adolph Saanwald imply an endorsement of Hitler. Even the slowest tourist has more sophistication than that, and to imply that future generations of Harvard students would be confused at the sight of such a memorial to the Confederate dead and think it Harvard's endorsement of the "peculiar institution," certainly doesn't credit the future with much intelligence. The fact that other...
Indeed, longtime observers said this was the slowest counting process in recent memory...