The balance of payments and exchange rates were making news, and the slow break-up of the Bretton Woods fixed-exchange rate system was under way.
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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.
There is a way to break the stranglehold of complexity: Slow down to power up.
And to speed that process along, nine federal agencies have signed an agreement that will help break down the bureaucratic barriers that currently make it slow and costly to build new transmission lines on federal lands.
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His biggest challenge: Find a way to break the logjam between Democrats who are reluctant to slow the growth of programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, and Republicans who insist that all deficit reduction must come from spending cuts and none from new taxes.
That is basically why it was invented to break down tough, gnarly cuts via long, slow cooking. (The smoke was just a byproduct of the crude fuel that happened to impart deliciousness.) The reason Texas barbecue is served on butcher paper is because it was popularized by butchers looking to move meat nobody wanted.
The Gunners were slow off the mark in leading only 10-3 at the break with Connacht fly-half Paul Warwick getting his side's only points from a penalty.
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?
Finally, four years later, he tried to break the postal system into four companies and privatise them, albeit in a slow process due to last until 2017.
Former Super Bowl MVP and Madden NFL 11 cover athlete Drew Brees continues to break NFL records, even as his New Orleans Saints have been off to a slow start.
Having been slow out of the blocks for the first half, Morecambe almost made the same mistake again after the break.
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