Because of the sheer magnitude of assets at Citi, Pandit will have to move more slowly.

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In the real world, the farther away an object is, the slower it seems to move. (That is why the horizon appears motionless, and is reassuring to look at during a bout of seasickness.) This means that shrinking a virtual scene, which makes it look farther away, also makes it appear to move more slowly.

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E-commerce for consumers will move much more slowly.

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Neutrons ejected from a watery surface move much more slowly than those from a rocky one, because the hydrogen nuclei in water are light enough for an exiting neutron to knock around much like one billiard ball hitting another a process that slows the neutron down.

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Without it such a galaxy's outer parts would spin more slowly than the inner ones (just as the outer planets of the solar system move around the sun more slowly than the earth does).

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You want to move slowly until you more or less match the other person's stance.

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That way, you have to be even more careful about how slowly you move.

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It would also let poor countries move toward the agreed trajectory of carbon prices more slowly than rich countries.

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China still has perhaps 200m underemployed rural workers who could move to factories over the next two decades, so wages for low-skilled workers are rising more slowly than productivity, reducing China's unit labour costs.

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