Late on Sunday, Senate Republicans said they were dropping their proposal to slow the growth of Social Security payments.
In Britain the perception that class is fairly fixed could become more damaging if income inequality continues to rise and social mobility to slow.
Some states, such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu, have good public services and social indicators despite slow urbanisation, but resisting it also comes at a price.
The Tory party of ten years ago was slow to grasp the importance of social policies.
Only one in three Arab women over the age of 15 works, compared to more than two out of three in East Asia, reflecting both conservative social attitudes and the slow growth of employment opportunities for either sex in much of the Arab world.
Economists say the Social Security tax increase may slow consumer spending and economic growth in the April-June quarter.
But that pace could slow down if, as Labour and Social Affairs Minister Ali bin Abdullah al-Kaabi has decreed, workers are given a break in the afternoon.
Not that he's slow off the mark when it comes to social media.
But IT departments at organizations ranging in size from the Federal government to the latest trendy social media startup have been very slow to implement IPv6.
The Czechs' recent election of a left-leaning Social Democrat government, however, may slow things down.
The predicted economic recovery, which could have helped boost his Social Democrats' chances, is proving slow to come.
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But Haiti's long-term social and political problems are also partly to blame for the slow response to the needs of the earthquake victims.
During intermediary phases when they are getting to know each other -- like today, with a social democrat Hollande and a conservative Merkel -- progress is slow.
Westwood took to social-networking site Twitter after his opening round to complain about slow play on day one.
The slow uptake is especially striking in comparison to their eager use of equivalent Chinese social media for domestic corporate communications.
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The CBO has warned that the government spending cuts, along with the Social Security tax increase and higher taxes on top earners, could slow growth by 1.5 percentage points this year, to 1.5 percent.
On June 8th, the UN Development Programme released a statement showing that progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), which were supposed to cut extreme poverty in half and improve social indicators such as education and health care, has been pitifully slow.
At the same time, Facebook has seen its growth slow recently, raising questions in the minds of investors about the effectiveness of its social ads and its relative lack of mobile ads.
To slow its spread, such measures as the closure of schools and the prohibition of large social gatherings might need to be contemplated.
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As the returns from economic reforms tend to be slow and the short-term adjustment costs high, the government should have adopted generous social compensatory and adjustment-assistance policies.
Investors have also been concerned that higher Social Security payroll taxes and sweeping government spending cuts that took effect earlier this year will slow U.S. economic growth, and pinch corporate profits.
And when we and other social ventures shared the health benefits of toilets with those in need, we found that people were slow to acknowledge the problem.
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