"This goal sets America on a path to slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions and, as the science justifies, to stop and then reverse that growth, " Dobriansky said in an e-mail to CNN.com while traveling in Europe.

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After a slow start, Young took Blake to five grueling sets that dragged on until the wee hours, narrowly missing the biggest win of his career.

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Kaye notes that while there is a perception of slow uptake for 3D TVs, the number of 3D sets sold in the first 12 months of availability was actually higher than the number of HD sets sold in the first 12 months.

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After sales of LCD TV sets grew last year, sales are expected to slow 13% this year, according to a report by research firm DisplaySearch.

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The "Mona Lisa" experiment was transmitted at a slow data rate of about 300 bits per second, but the "pathfinding achievement sets the stage for ... high data rate laser-communication demonstrations that will be a central feature of NASA's next moon mission, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, " said Goddard's Richard Vondrak, the orbiter's deputy project scientist.

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The audience take-up rate was slow for the first seven years, because of the expense of the decoders needed to broadcast Ceefax onto TV sets, but soon the service expanded year by year.

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Motorola Disease sets in when Finance takes charge, pushing companies to chase existing markets even if the pursuit leads to slow commoditization.

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