Berwick-upon-Tweed is only the sixth place in the UK to be awarded Cittaslow status, an Italian term that translates as "slow city".
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"Forecasters told me they would see thunderstorms approach a city, slow down and a divergence of flow around the city, " says Bornstein.
British troops are tightening the ring around Basra in a slow move into the city.
Critics claim the authorities have been slow to respond to the city's growth.
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Taking the port city after a slow, cautious advance along heavily mined roads may have been the easy part.
British troops, with the support of American special operations forces, have been pushing steadily into the city in a slow and methodical process.
For Joplin, the newest New Normal was the reality it would be stuck in the very slow process of rebuilding an obliterated city.
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But an industry that doesn't need too much space, and brings in a lot of money and not too many people, also seems like a good prospect for a city that wants to slow down a bit.
On September 2nd, some 3, 000 people gathered outside the cathedral in Guatemala city to complain at the slow pace of investigation.
But residents have since complained that the construction of new homes and efforts to rebuild the historic city centre have been too slow.
After that storm, the city was criticized for its slow response in clearing side streets and at least one death was blamed on the inability of an ambulance to get through an unplowed street.
But Yale, which is starting to feel the impact, has been slow to use its academic prestige on the city's behalf.
For instance, Sprint delivered a market-best average download speed of 4.6 Mbps in WiMAX-enabled Kansas City, while recording a noticeably slow 0.5 Mbps in non-WiMAX Buffalo.
Politicians are never slow to jump on a rolling bandwagon and Swansea City's FA Cup success spurred three MPs into action.
Subsequently, a surge in violent crime, the slow pace of reconstruction, and the burgeoning corruption scandal at city hall undermined his popularity.
Prior to the completion of the cable cars, people stranded in the favelas wanting access to jobs, education, healthcare and even basic shopping had to make a slow and arduous journey down the mountainside to get into the city.
Longtime NYC running coach Jonathan Cane (who once coached me in cycling don't blame him for my slow marathons), posted a thoughtful essay on his "City Coach" blog Thursday, saying that he disagreed with the city's decision to hold the race.
The city's phone network is down and communications are slow.
The City of Roses saves its sweetest pleasures for those willing to slow down and savor them.
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The worst recession the City has ever known is the result not merely of a slow global economy, falling stockmarkets, or the prospect of war though all play their part.
In the past two seasons, critics have dished up our share of Wynton compliments, as well as a few direct insults, calling the show slow, or preachy, or a little too in love with the city it portrays.
Slow Food Italy is the Italian national branch of the group ( we have one here in the US too and I wrote about it here at Forbes.com), and today in New York City they are releasing the second edition of their book, The Slow Wine guide.
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But the unwieldy dimensions of these new buildings will turn their migration into a slow-motion race in which nearly three-dozen units will lumber to the city from a factory in Berwick, Pa.
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China is in that stage now, with an authoritarian government fighting to slow the influx of farmers from the countryside and employ the ones who make it to the city.
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Six months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey shore and New York City and pounded coastal areas of New England, the region is dealing with a slow and frustrating, yet often hopeful, recovery.
In addition to pursuing Mr. Musharraf, Mr. Zulfikar was also the state prosecutor in the slow-moving case that seeks to convict the men who planned the 2008 attack on the Indian city of Mumbai, which killed more than 160 people.
Meantime, slow-but-steady transit improvements to the area and policy changes under the new mayor made Moscow City one of the few new developments allowed to continue in the city center, say industry experts.
Since the 2011 blizzard that dumped 20 inches on Chicago, the nation's third-largest city has had it pretty easy snow-wise, with a relatively mild winter last year and a slow start this year.
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