The WSPs each have unique requirements and slow approval processes.

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The downside of geocoding Web services is that they tend to require a license if you want to make lots of requests and, because they involve extra back-and-forth with an external server, they can slow down processes.

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In addition, you may become more forgetful, your thought processes may slow or you may feel depressed.

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And our contracting processes are slow and cumbersome.

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It is moving from complex, slow, costly tools and processes to disruptive, easy, fast, and scalable contemporary technologies that match the speed of creation and deployment to the speed of business need.

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However, this disruption brings more opportunities and policymakers should not slow or even choke off these processes.

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Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 and authored last year's "Thinking Fast and Slow, " has explored how our conscious thought processes are susceptible to being disrupted by irrational, subconscious influences.

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The nova is providing a unique stellar laboratory, shedding light on processes normally confined to supernovae that are too slow for Earth-bound astronomers to learn from quickly.

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