But in all likelihood the air-taxi market will be slow out of the gate.
"Activity on the Main Board will be slow mainly because of interest rate concerns, " says Patrick Lim, president of the Malaysian Investors' Association.
Pemex, the state-owned oil company that dominates the Mexican economy, recently announced deep-water oil discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico, suggesting the company might be able to slow the decline of its production.
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He is an exponent of what might be thought of as a Slow Foot movement, asserting that a sort of virtue is forged in the discipline of wearing exquisite, handmade shoes, even if they cramp the metatarsals.
Some investors may still be wary of Gamestop after witnessing the slow degeneration of Radioshack (NYSE: RSH).
But I think Apple has peaked and the story of the next few years will be one of a slow but real decline.
The United States has long believed that it was desirable for both the U.S. and Soviet strategic forces to be substantially comprised of slow-flying manned penetrating bombers.
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He said the danger of slow growth may now be greater than the loss of market confidence through increased borrowing and that the "balance of risk" had changed since 2010, when the coalition made deficit reduction central.
But because of the nature of this storm, we are certain that this is going to be a slow-moving process through a wide swath of the country, and millions of people are going to be affected.
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But that doesn't mean storms will be less powerful, or that the rest of the season will be slow.
Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson may take solace in a clean sheet for his side and the fact they remain top of their group but their slow rate of progress will be a concern.
Some of the extra capacity will be absorbed in the new practice of slow steaming - industry-speak for sailing more slowly.
We think adoption of hybrid drives will be slow, given that their general availability will not occur until the second half of 2013, and slow sales of ultrabooks.
But now France is getting in on the act, in the hope that its enjoyment of la belle vie will be vindicated in the face of relatively slow economic growth.
To some, the purchase was a head-scratching gambit: The sport of horse racing is perceived to be dying a slow, inexorable death, an ember of the 20th-century sporting scene, like boxing.
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Winning back confidence in global capital markets will be a necessary if slow part of economic recovery.
The Fed also seemed to be surprised by the slow pace of economic growth, even though it is solely responsible for nominal GDP (NGDP).
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So if the incumbents can woo affluent customers in emerging Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, they may be able to slow the emergence of global rivals.
Magic Johnson in his prime would be too slow to play point guard in today's locomotive landscape, just as Larry Bird would be too slow to guard any of today's elite small forwards.
January and February used to be slow but with the success of films like Mall Cop and Taken (both of which were released in January), even that has become a somewhat interesting time to release films.
Annual wage growth will be slow in the first half of the coming decade and will then pick up to 3% in the latter years, according to John Philpott, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
If it chose not to take this draconian step, the Navy would be obliged to slow the rate of production and delivery of the 153 Trident II missiles currently authorized so as to minimize the adverse effects of shutting down the line entirely.
Banks, by the way, may be doing more to slow the rise of foreclosures than they've been given credit for.
Surveys of business confidence suggest that growth is set to slow, but there seems to be little risk of recession.
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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For Microsoft, the decline will most likely be slow, but for the possibility of reattaining its prominence in the world of computing, its window is closing fast.
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Mr Lee argues instead that America's slow growth will be the consequence of its terrible savings rate on the grounds that America cannot borrow from abroad to fund its investment for ever, and investment drives the growth rate.
But another part can be attributed to the slow-down in the US and most of Europe that seems to be getting worse rather than better.
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With the all-important non-farm payrolls number coming on Friday, economists have been forced to cut their forecasts in anticipation of what could be a very weak jobs report on top of a very slow first quarter takes its toll on the economy.
The impact of a slow or no growth economy has to be a decline in the price earnings ratio of U.S. stocks.
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