For those reasons, ships are often designed to operate at a relatively slow speed of 15-20 knots, which inhibits their potential productivity.

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The report, however, says the brakes on Toyotas are powerful enough to stop a car even with wide-open throttle, or at least slow it to a safe speed.

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Say just one car's stability-control system is activated at an unusually slow speed on a highway off-ramp.

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The way agency search is practiced now is too slow for a marketing world that runs at the speed of light, and it is too expensive for companies (and agencies) that need to prevent harmful waste.

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The reality is that investors may have become overoptimistic on the prospects of housing and the speed of a possible recovery that will be slow and gradual at most, and will resemble more an upward climb than a walk in the park.

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The captain proceeded in the fjords at very slow speed, barely moving forward, by lowering an anchor from the bow to a depth greater than the hull of the ship.

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