But the cost of going slow on privatisation is not just revenue and efficiency forgone.
The research pipeline was dry as well as empty, and marketers were slow on the draw.
And when our brains get slow on the draw, we get less efficient at work.
The easiest way to regain ground may be to change the subject and to go slow on reform.
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You have to go out slow on your out lap and then go as fast as you can on one lap.
Once more, Sprint was slow on the uptake even on that front.
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Campbell also said mobile internet has been slow on the uptake there as digital media tablets are becoming popular ways of going online.
The bricks 'n mortar banks may have been slow on the uptake, but most now allow customers to do all their banking online.
However, his victory was overshadowed by a go-slow on the penultimate stage as riders protested about roads on the route not being properly closed to other traffic.
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Hollywood studios are slow on the uptake with such services, which may lead to their inevitable ultimate failure by making movie piracy even more of a habit than it is already.
Hence a new kind of strategic expert appeared on the scene to take over companies slow on the uptake that the 1980s were a very different, indeed a very better world than the 1970s.
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Over-the-air firmware updates (FOTA) are all well and good, but manufacturers and carriers have been a little slow on the uptake, and even plain ol' PC-delivered upgrades are oddly difficult for the average user to come by.
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Progress, Reuters news agency notes, has been slow on two trademarks of Mr Medvedev's modernisation drive: efforts to create a high-tech innovation incubator at Skolkovo, outside Moscow, and to turn the capital into a global financial centre.
Spain has some support for going slow on austerity from the International Monetary Fund, whose chief economist Olivier Blanchard recently warned that the economic pain caused by government spending cuts across the over-indebted industrialised world since 2009 has proved far worse than expected.
Four million dollars might be a lot to spend on a holiday, but those in the nascent space tourism industry say hoteliers have been slow on the uptake because no one thought the cost of space travel would come down as quickly as it has.
Graphics are heavily used on both sites, but they may be slow downloads on anything less than a 28.8 modem.
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Bashar's bowlers picked up wickets at regular intervals on a slow and uneven pitch on Wednesday.
Berlin is also suggesting it wants to go slow even on a resolution authority.
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When the economy turns down, businesses and consumers slow spending on hardware, software and other tech goods.
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Say just one car's stability-control system is activated at an unusually slow speed on a highway off-ramp.
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Westwood took to social-networking site Twitter after his opening round to complain about slow play on day one.
C. no longer have grocery shopping as an excuse for their slow progress on an immigration bill and the sequester.
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Last week, Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, slammed Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, for the slow progress on the education package.
He says the budget problem isn't really Medicare but health care costs in general, making it impossible for Medicare costs to slow down on their own.
It is the government's slow progress on both these fronts since November, rather than the tiff between Messrs Ecevit and Sezer, that has given investors pause once more.
As a result, "Hardbody" feels slow, on occasion agonizingly so.
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