The comments follow longstanding concerns, expressed at national and European level, over the slow roll-out and take up of broadband internet services in Britain.
And this was a slow phase-out that was supposed to take place over two years and not concern consumers in emerging markets all that much.
Wal-Mart plans to keep a steadier flow of customer traffic this year by planning out an early discounting season rather than waiting until mid-December to clear out slow-moving merchandise.
X-ray millisecond pulsar has proved puzzlingly slow and drawn-out.
Britain's position as an opted-out, slow-lane member really is a solitary status.
In Asia, that theoretically means that some companies--some big slow-moving ones--will go out of business and people will lose jobs.
Schofield's Lancashire career nosedived as Sri Lanka off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan and reliable slow left-armer Gary Keedy kept him out of the team.
The difference is staggering, especially when Dietz trots out the slow-motion footage.
The 3G roll-out was slow, painful to watch, and the benefits took significantly longer to reach the public because of the financial burden.
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With comedy that ranged from the laugh-out-loud-obvious to the slow-burning subtlety that you only 'got' the morning after, this is decidedly good and appropriate theatre to watch in snowy Suffolk!
Gold is trading at an all time high Monday morning in Asian markets and oil is lower on concerns that the world economy is about to slow down near-term as Europe works out its sovereign debt issues, and the US battles a slow, jobless recovery.
Now the Clinton administration, never slow to sniff out a politically-correct political opportunity, has jumped in to claim the costs not covered by that judgment.
The Sun Kil Moon version of "Convenient Parking, " from what might be Modest Mouse's best record, 1997's "The Lonesome Crowded West, " definitely gets the song's slow-burn intensity, teasing it out on his acoustic guitar as if over the course of making this record Isaac Brock's high-strung delivery has gotten under Kozelek's skin.
Martin Guptill departed for two when he was superbly caught by Umar Akmal sliding forward after racing in from long-on and slow left-armer Abdur Rehman claimed his second victim when McCullum holed out in the deep for 33.
But in all likelihood the air-taxi market will be slow out of the gate.
Many criticised it for being slow to do deals in the buy-out boom and for sitting on too much cash.
One-year forecasts are pretty much worthless (witness the past year, which saw stocks zoom into the teeth of a weak, slow recovery), and even decade-out estimates are close to garbage.
The many writs, threats, injunctions and court cases have become embroiled in slow-grinding legal machinations, been thrown out on technical grounds or failed because foreign firms had not properly registered their designs.
The tailender gradually began to play with some confidence, cutting Jacques Kallis delightfully to the cover-point boundary, and then dishing out two more off-side boundaries off the slow bowler Paul Harris.
But capital spending on U-Verse is expected to slow in 2011, when the company expects to complete its initial roll-out to 30 million homes.
This time, Gromit, the smart dog, and Wallace, his well-meaning, slightly slow owner, set out to catch a sheep rustler.
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Hazard lost patience when the ball boy, 17-year-old Charlie Morgan, was slow to hand the ball back to him after it had gone out for a goal-kick.
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We will hear a lot in the coming days about whether the pull-out is too quick or too slow.
This certainly is a big problem for Oracle, which has been slow to adopt next-generation technologies and could miss out on an enormous growth opportunity.
The BP Oil Spill was unique in that it was a man-made disaster, played out in slow motion over months and televised from the bottom of the sea.
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But Jones was too slow to fill his defensive channel after a line-out and Phil Godman raced through the gap to let Ben Cairns finish under the posts, Paterson converting.
Indeed, a combination of confusion and foot-dragging has made many financial firms slow to carry out necessary changes.
Jeter was a split second slow out of the blocks and nearly caught Fraser-Pryce in the final meters, but the Jamaican leaned across the finish for the victory.
And large-scale PVP can feel slow because most of the results are out of your control.
"The federal government is a slow-moving boat and the people that initiate the process for getting proposals out to vendors - well, put it this way - they could use a really good training video!"
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