Word: slow
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...last quarter, but even if it reaches its ambitious targets for the rest of the year, it will still be left with €52 billion to go. From now on, analysts warn, most telecoms may look more like utilities than cutting-edge market leaders. But, hey: utilities, with their slow, steady returns, at least keep the lights on. And for nearly dark telcos, that's a good call...
...April, the medical community hailed the achievement for its startling swiftness, announcing the first step on the road to defeating the disease had been taken. A little more than a month later, however, little has changed for SARS patients in Asian hospital wards and ICUs. Diagnostic tests are still slow or unreliable. Treatment for the disease?a combination of steroids and ribavirin?hasn?t proved very effective and has barely been modified since the early weeks of the outbreak. The best tools for stopping SARS are still face masks, fever checks and quarantine?19th century medicine for a 21st century...
...number of cases in the world, behind mainland China and Hong Kong, and enough to earn a WHO travel advisory. The epidemic also claimed Taiwan's first political casualties: Twu Shiing-jer, Minister of Health, and Chen Tzay-jinn, director of the CDC, resigned over criticism they were too slow to implement strict infection-control measures in hospitals...
...Moreover, Taiwan's initially low infection rate may have had more to do with luck than sound government policy. Authorities have been slow to put in place a national action plan to combat the virus, forcing local governments and individual hospitals to improvise. Taiwan at first also refused to impose health screening at immigration checkpoints as other places have done, and its quarantine measures were more lax than those seen in affected zones such as Singapore, which has successfully contained the disease...
...been hastily assembled, the military has been called into action to help disinfect Taipei's streets and hospitals and strict quarantine measures have been imposed in the capital with stiff fines for violators. Still, some worry that the disease is gathering momentum and bureaucratic reaction times remain too slow. A foreign health-care specialist, who declined to be identified, notes that more than 100 suspected SARS cases in Taiwan have yet to be reviewed by epidemiologists?meaning the number of victims might be substantially higher than the official tally. "Clearly there are major structural and organizational issues that need...