While time passes extremely slowly on Earth, the rest of the universe continues on at a normal pace.

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To their credit, both programs recognize continuous speech--that is, you can speak at a normal pace rather than pausing distinctly between words--and both are blessed with large vocabularies of over 20, 000 words.

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However, one could say that sales are now flowing at a more normal pace.

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The biggest problem may be that such improved awareness evolves at a normal steady pace, but the crises that lurk ahead strike like lightning.

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They have a long way to go to get back to normal levels that would support spending at a pace needed for a sustained recovery, since the percentage of household debt to GDP is so far down only to 88%.

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