• He knows that the slow pace of multi-party talks in Northern Ireland is unnerving nationalists.

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  • That Guam is a named player in a nuclear showdown is striking for an island known for its slow pace and laid-back attitudes.

    NPR: North Korea Threats Spark Buzz On Guam, Not Panic

  • The slow pace of job re-creation is primarily the result of consumers and companies trying to rebuild their finances.

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  • Clearly there is something going badly wrong with Britain's balance of payments which goes well beyond the slow pace of recovery in the eurozone - and has yet to be fully explained.

    BBC: IMF looks ahead

  • The ICC has the power to ban captains for slow over rates and Ponting ran the risk of receiving a one-Test suspension had he stuck with his pace bowlers, given the slow rate they were managing.

    BBC: India deserved victory - Ponting

  • In this slow-growth stronghold, anything other than a glacial pace of development is anathema.

    ECONOMIST: Age and Californian cities

  • It begs the question, with the Web still accounting for such a small percentage of retail sales, and online growth now projected to slow from the pace of the last few years--will consumers ever break through and adopt the Internet as a shopping channel significant enough to break through single digits as a percentage of overall sales?

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The U.S. solar market continued its record-setting pace in the second quarter, but amid the boom are signs of a slow down in the break-neck growth of recent years, according to a report released Monday.

    FORBES: Is The U.S. Solar Boom Slowing Down?

  • This is an excuse often given for the maddeningly slow pace of reform in India, its stop-go cycles and its constant back-pedalling.

    ECONOMIST: Democracy and growth are not in competition

  • In May, donor countries cut funding pledges to Tanzania - which Mr Kikwete has governed since 2005 - after expressing concern about corruption and the slow pace of reforms.

    BBC: Dubai investor denies bribing Tanzania's Kikwete

  • Optimism about better-than-expected second-quarter earnings is tempered by concerns about the slow pace of economic growth, the lack of a resolution to the U.S. debt ceiling debate and European sovereign debt.

    FORBES: AAII Sentiment Survey: Five-Week High For Bearish Sentiment

  • Boston was able to slow the Thunder from their best-in-the-NBA scoring pace of 107 points per game, but Oklahoma City's lowest output since Jan. 13 was still enough to come out ahead in this one.

    NPR: Thunder Grind Out 91-79 Win Over Celtics

  • No-one has been arrested and opposition MPs have criticised the slow pace of the investigation.

    BBC: Two arrested over India Ghaziabad 'gang rape'

  • The Federal Reserve has been increasing interest rates at the slow, steady pace originally promised as the economy inched out of the 2000-01 recession.

    ECONOMIST: Greenspan’s last words? | The

  • Rates of smoking are relatively low, mid-day naps are the norm, the pace of life is slow and people socialise frequently with friends and family, drinking moderate amounts of wine.

    BBC: The Greek island of old age

  • Now, under Mayor Emanuel, the city continues to offer thousands of dollars in incentives to sell away the units. (And the latest round in the plan is focused, I believe ever so woefully, on promoting homeownership rather than renting.) The pace of filling up the mixed-income developments has been chronically slow.

    FORBES: Urban Housing Policy As School Reform

  • Frustrated by the slow pace, the Bank of Spain and the government have given them until year-end to complete their deals.

    ECONOMIST: The euro crisis

  • The stock is off one-third from its late 2000 high because the company says its earnings pace should slow to 10% growth this year.

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  • But that pace could slow down if, as Labour and Social Affairs Minister Ali bin Abdullah al-Kaabi has decreed, workers are given a break in the afternoon.

    BBC: Construction in Dubai

  • Races last season witnessed only two lead changes per caution (the boring slow laps led by the pace car), compared with three in the 1990s and four in the dirt-track 1970s.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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