Having to read slowly helped him master complicated issues as he went from a New York City prosecutor to mayor of Stamford, Conn.

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The actors, particularly Pine, read their short lines slowly, like people who live in fear of being misheard, but nothing they do improves communication.

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In rural areas, where few people can read, information spreads slowly.

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We owned no car and Paddy had been driving me in a horse and trap to the Loreto convent, a red-brick building on a hill overlooking Youghal bay, where the nuns were slowly teaching me to read and write.

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As I read it, the walls of my tiny bathroom felt like they were slowly but surely closing in on me.

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