Both Grove and the Fox Foundation are impatient with the slow progress in developing new drugs for Parkinson's.

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The island is jam-packed with wallabies, wombats and possums, principally because foxes, which have decimated marsupial populations on the mainland, were slow to reach the island (the first fox was found in Tasmania only as recently as 2001).

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Mr Fox also offered no help on Iraq, and relations have been slow to recover.

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Going forward, growth in the subscription fee is likely to slow due to pressure from pay-TV service providers and expected competition from NBC and Fox, who are planning to launch nationwide sports networks to compete with ESPN.

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There is also a slow, nearly invisible metamorphosis in the lower levels of government, some of which began before Mr Fox took office.

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