From the outside looking in, it may seem like a slow process but truth be told, messaging slowly unfolds as ideas are pushed into the spotlight and examined.

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Some of the extra capacity will be absorbed in the new practice of slow steaming - industry-speak for sailing more slowly.

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You would expect countries battered down by such calamities to grow more slowly than the average, so the correlation between aid and slow growth is false.

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"We're rolling Graph Search out slowly - fast enough for the debate to take place, and but slow enough so people have a chance to look through their stuff before this comes out to a large audience, " he says.

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Indeed, big, slow-moving ships owned by a collective of wealthy white Americans tend to turn, well, slowly.

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Now, slowly but surely, people are beginning to think nothing is going to rescue the Eurozone from a slow motion disaster.

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Today he confirms that shift in a new column for Bloomberg- Chinese Property Bust Is Morphing Into a Slow Leak-in which he says Chinese real estate prices have peaked and will decline, but much more slowly than he expects.

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