That could slow sales at the start of the all-important spring-buying season.
With the battle-weary Dragons having lost five in a row and Connacht having little to play for, the slow start at Rodney Parade could have been predicted.
The club did have a painfully slow start at the new park, turning in losing seasons in their first six years, including the historically awful 2002 and 2003 seasons (106 and 119 losses respectively).
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And his wisdom became clear when the MP4-19 proved both slow and catastrophically unreliable at the start of the season.
REM the firing pattern of the brain's nerve cells sets up slow electrical waves that start at different points in the cerebral cortex and travel across it.
True, at the start, the expansion was slow by historical standards.
When everyone else is moving at 100 miles per hour, start your own Slow Connection Movement.
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Couple that with souring consumer sentiment, and the sales growth at HP's PC group could start to slow.
In a note to investors on May 25, Joel Sendek, a biotechnology analyst at Lazard Capital Markets, wrote that many physicians had been slow to start patients on Provenge as they figure out logistics and billing issues.
Science shows that peak performance in endurance athletics tends to occur either at negative or even splits, which happens when athletes start out slow enough to run the second half faster and the finish faster still.
At home, PSG has silenced all the critics who crowed over the club's slow start to the season and its second-place finish in the 2011-2012 campaign.
After a slow start, Boeing is moving on to a new phase of using the pooled technical and business talents now at its command to develop completely new activities.
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