America only slowly opened the door.

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He said "there was no thaw in sight" and that although roads "were slowly being opened up" people were still in a "terrible situation".

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The thief opened the car doors when they were stationary or moving slowly, usually with the driver still inside.

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When Palacio was 20 years old and traveling through Nicaragua, he met an elderly man of his same ancestry who opened Palacio's eyes to a past that was slowly fading away.

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Slowly, more mainstream companies are realizing the huge potential that eSports has opened up for connecting their brands with engaged gamers.

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Meanwhile, trains, which carry about a third of all transalpine freight, have to wind their way up and down steep gradients, slowly and fairly lightly laden, to reach the existing St Gotthard railway tunnel, which was opened in 1882.

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