"I think broadband prices are likely to stay much the same or only drop slowly over the next few years, " said Tim Johnson of Point Topic.

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Meanwhile, Zyprexa, the top seller for giant Eli Lilly, has seen its annual sales drop slowly in recent years as competitors such as Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Geodon and Abilify, from Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ), have boasted that they cause less weight gain.

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It's a two-character mystery spread out over 85 minutes of real time in which both characters slowly drop their pretenses and reveal their common hurt.

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Inspired by his trip, Palacio decided to drop the electronic sound that was slowly dominating mainstream Central-American music and devote his sound to the traditional Garifuna music of acoustic guitars accompanied by intelligent, traditional lyrics.

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Even big exchange-rate shifts can be absorbed if they occur slowly. (The 8% drop in the dollar since early 2002, for instance, has not caused any problems.) But if they happen quickly, financial markets are roiled, and at worst financial institutions are unable to cope with the strain.

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The cold front was slowly marching eastward, where highs in the District of Columbia will drop from 62 on Sunday to 43 on Tuesday.

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For all the pain endured by companies and the big drop in euro-area output, the region's unemployment is rising more slowly than in America or Britain.

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Second, by implementing a gradual transformation, it gave everyday consumers the chance to slowly warm up to the idea of owning an Xbox 360 while the price continued to drop.

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