The Atlantic states are suffering from a slow motion version of the economic paralysis now affecting much of Europe, particularly France and Sweden with their state-of-the-art, massive welfare systems.

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As a religious movement, Ennahda (which seems currently like a slow-motion version of more radical Salafi movements) is missing an extraordinary opportunity.

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Saying Web browsers on other networks are "painfully slow, " Mattrick announced that an integrated version of Internet Explorer will be coming to the Xbox this fall.

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But sales in those two countries are likely to be slow until Smart starts making a right-hand-drive version, next year at the earliest.

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In a forthcoming article for Urban Affairs Review, a trio of researchers took survey data on local policies from nearly 300 California municipalities and ran it against foreclosure figures, a decade later. (You can find an earlier version of the paper here (PDF).) Cities that implemented slow growth or anti-growth policies in the late 1990s saw significantly fewer foreclosures between 2008 and 2009, the torrential center of the housing crisis.

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When mechanical engineer James Parks joined Nektar in 1994, employees at the company were hand-filling blister packs with an early version of insulin powder at a rate of 100 per person per day, too slow for mass production.

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Here, a streamlined version of that annual celebratory spread serves as the second of the chef's four Slow Food Fast contributions, just in time for New Year's Eve.

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