Veltri objected that Nissen's proposal would apply to all diabetes drugs, even if there was no scientific reason to believe the treatments would cause any risk, and that this could just slow down drug development.

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Natural gas, if it continues to stay cheap, will slow down clean power development in the next few decades, Google says.

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That could slow down the more development of more complicated games, but the strength of iOS has always been the volume of casual games.

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Mosley believes this will slow down the rate of engine development.

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New game development will slow down considerably.

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As just one example, permitting by the Department of the Interior would slow down, creating delays for the development of oil and gas on Federal lands.

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But first, across the US, land managers are trying to find ways to slow down the loss of open space and water sources, many of them threatened by rampant development.

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The company, fully aware of Windows 8's slow, looming approach to market, has set its sights on that unclaimed slice of market pie, hunkering down into development of a Metro-style Firefox, announced just this past February.

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