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In a newsletter partly named for this adjective, guest author Simon Bazelon co-coined the term “Secret Congress” for low-key bipartisan (10[1])dealmaking. This is the first word of a book that praises Ken Saro-Wiwa and Arundhati Roy (10[1])as “writer-activists” and opens by decrying the “poison-redistribution ethic” of a World Bank memo by Larry Summers. In that 2011 book also titled for the Environmentalism of the Poor, Rob Nixon theorized this kind of Violence. (10[1])An analogy (10[1])about “hard boards” from Max Weber’s “Politics as a Vocation” inspired (-5[1])a Substack named for this kind (10[1])of “Boring” (10[3])by Vox (10[3])Media (10[4])co-founder Matthew Yglesias. (10[1])After Carlo Petrini protested the first McDonald’s in Rome, he founded a movement named for this kind of (10[1])“food.” (10[1])For 10 points, what adjective (10[2])is paired with “steady” in a proverb (10[1])derived from (10[1])Aesop’s (10[1])“The Tortoise and the Hare”? ■END■ (10[1])

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