Wooded upland areas retain rainwater longer and release it more slowly, lessening the need for pumped-in water downstream.
As the crisis slowly lessened, doctors were recruited at US$8 US$644 in today's market) for a 3-hour session (or US$24 for all day; US$192 in today's market) to administer vaccine, but few volunteered.
Load your iPod with uptempo music, Dr. Donelan suggests (although obviously ease into any changes in training slowly, to lessen the risk of injuries).
Following the reaction period, the steam pressure was slowly released through a condenser over 15 30 s to lessen boil-over and the pretreated solids were sealed in a plastic freezer tub and stored at 4 °C for later analysis.
China is working (ever so slowly) with ASEAN towards a regional code of conduct to lessen the risks of conflict.
Irene has winds over 39 miles an hour over an area about 500 miles wide, which would tend to create higher surges, but is moving relatively slowly at about 15 miles an hour, which would tend to lessen them.
Then, as now, a negotiated settlement represented the best way to lessen violence gradually, secure one's own interests and slowly move the situation to a point where one's values could begin to gain serious traction.
These days, the pain is lessening, though slowly, she said.
But then, watching the video without the sound, and looking at it slowly, bit-by-bit (lessening the "distraction" of the celebrity meme, and considering the subliminal allusions hitting the brain as fast as the scenery from a speeding train), the imagery starts to suggest other inferences.
At the July 27 hearing, some committee members said they felt regulators were moving too slowly to put into effect parts of the Dodd-Frank Act that would lessen the reliance of investors on credit ratings.
