Word: slow
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...originally left in 2000 for a seat on the board of directors. Since then, the company has announced a number of major changes. On January 30, the company said it would stop selling breakfast sandwiches (in response to criticism that the odor covered up the smell of coffee), slow its rapid pace of opening stores in the U.S., and no longer report comparable-store sales to Wall Street - a sign that the company is serious about investing for long-term growth and not catering to short-term concerns from investors...
Wringing more out of plastic discs won't be enough to secure the record companies' futures, though. More pressing is the need to sharpen strategies for the digital market. Record companies were slow to turn on to digital; Doug Morris, the boss of Universal Music, once slammed MP3 players as little more than "repositories for stolen music." But last year those companies saw their revenues from digital sales hit an estimated $2.9 billion, up almost eightfold since 2004. However, that's not exactly the fortissimo it may appear to be. The 38% annual growth in digital sales last year...
While some have criticized the slow pace of Iraqi political development, O’Sullivan finds it unsurprising...
...Obama campaign has cleverly slow-walked the debate over the Florida and Michigan primaries, knowing that the clock on their side. With Florida essentially giving up, and Michigan struggling to find a solution, Clinton's time - and options - are fast running...
...This should be absolutely normal, but in Iran, it's the exception. Why is there such poverty in management here? The main point is that our economy is public and must be privatized. A bill's been signed and we're in that process, but it's much too slow, and the government is investing massively in business at the same time that it's supposed to privatize its shares of the economy. This is contradictory. When the government has a wrong outlook on the economy, when it has a political take on the economy, I think these problems come...