"I didn't expect to finish that quickly but I knew I could beat him because he had slow feet and slow hands, " Khan said.

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In the end, the US band were a good call and songs from the forthcoming album went down well alongside old favourites like PDA, Slow Hands and Evil.

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Similarly, when you are dying a slow death at the hands of a blistering foul wind, you are programmed to flee the situation.

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But his poor performance in a rout at the hands of Alabama, some slow workouts, and a tabloid-ready hoax involving a fake girlfriend that became a national soap opera dropped his stock.

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Just slow, then touching the water and yer hands going in.

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He realizes that requiring clinical testing for efficacy will slow things down and needlessly keep important drugs out of the hands of suffering patients.

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