Mr Cantalupo also saw McDonald's slow down its historically high-speed expansion and the closure of hundreds of under-performing restaurants.

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Where a non-Urfa driver might speed up or slow down, it seemed, an Urfa driver preferred simply to honk his horn.

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Officials point to another poll finding that, of those who plan to vote in a referendum, 62% favour joining the EU. For this majority, the issue is whether the anti-corruption push will speed up or slow down Croatia's path to membership.

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It will not speed the recovery -- it will slow down the recovery.

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It will not speed up the recovery -- in fact, it will slow down the recovery.

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Verizon initially said in a FAQ that it would slow users' access speed down to 256Kbps, "a little faster than typical dial-up speed" for up to three days - but later deleted the information from its site.

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The additional 16 GB RAM will further help the speed of the OPC and enable users to multi-task with no noticeable slow down in performance.

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This is caused by faster assistants slowing down to the speed of the average - so as not to embarrass their slower colleagues - while the "slow ones, stay slow", which has an overall effect of dragging down the speed.

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