President Barack Obama's formal declaration of his re-election bid Monday actually serves as a reminder that the 2012 campaign is off to such a slow start that it has shattered one piece of conventional wisdom: the notion that each presidential sweepstakes starts earlier than the last one.
It had a slow start with only 2, 300 available by March 2009, but has gained traction.
"We had a slow start and then it's like as soon as a couple of guys started hitting shots, it's contagious, " Novak said.
In contrast, it was a slow start for Valentino Rossi, a seven-time world champion in the sport's premier class, who finished the Thursday session in 10th place and the same again in Friday's first run.
It was an uncharacteristically slow start to year from Red Bull, with Vettel winning the year's fourth grand prix in Bahrain but then not picking up a second success until September's race in Singapore.
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"It's a slow start and we hope thing will be busier by the autumn, and we'd like to think by the end of the year we will exceed the target of 50 births, " he said.
Whatever it is gifts them with powers that start slow with magic tricks, messing with girls and shifting cars in a parking lot.
"I don't think our start was great, but it wasn't as slow as some of the other ones, " Rangers coach John Tortorella said.
Dealers say the Five Hundred got off to a slow start, but the company says it is on track to meet sales expectations of 100, 000 units this year.
President Bush has warned the Senate against "loading" up the bill because it would slow down the effort to jump-start the economy as soon as possible.
It noted that the recruitment drive got off to a slow start last year, with fewer than 1, 000 contract soldiers were recruited in the Volga Urals district.
It came as no surprise that voting got off to a slow start in Pakistan on October 10th.
After a slow start during which the mission was plagued by unclear objectives, it is now held up as a great success amid the awful failures in Congo and Somalia, according to Richard Gowan of the Centre on International Co-operation at New York University, who has observed Brazilian marines in action.
But before you start shorting the stocks of stodgy old companies slow to the Net, consider that it will be some time--a long time--before e-commerce really pays off across Asia.
While some homeowners and advocates have complained the "Rapid Repairs" program got off to a slow start, Bloomberg and residents of a Sandy-ravaged island heralded it Friday as a first-time initiative that helped about 54, 000 get back home.
"That gives me confidence that if he does get off to a slow start, that things are going to turn around because I've seen it time and time again, " Girardi said.
In 2010, when the race was last held, off the coast of Valencia, Spain, it drew criticism for being too slow and too far from spectators onshore and because its start was delayed two days by a lack of wind.
Since the 2011 blizzard that dumped 20 inches on Chicago, the nation's third-largest city has had it pretty easy snow-wise, with a relatively mild winter last year and a slow start this year.
It looked as though the new captain would not be needed when Cook and Strauss overcame their slow start to take England within 74 of victory.
Although it has yet to start formal discussions with the UK government, there are increasing signs the IMF believes the slow pace of growth means the UK should consider slowing the pace of its spending cuts.
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