The building of a reprocessing plant at Rokkashomura, in Aomori prefecture, has been disappointingly slow.

ECONOMIST: Japan and Britain

You may gawp or flinch, but your pulse, like that of Dr. Lecter himself, will stay disappointingly slow.

NEWYORKER: Hannibal

After a deep recession, the U.S. economy has been growing since the middle of last year, but its growth has been disappointingly slow.

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The committee notes that economic growth has been disappointingly slow, in part because households and firms are deleveraging from high levels of debt assumed prior to the financial crisis.

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