Word: slowness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...take Detroit 30 years to catch up? "Either the crisis isn't big enough or the vision isn't persuasive enough," says John MacDuffie, a manufacturing expert at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. Instead, during those years, the domestic auto industry has been a slow leak, skidding from one restructuring to the next, chasing its declining market share as its costs have inflated...
...It’s a slow process, but I do think there’s a role for the federal government to play,” he said. “The fact that in 2008 most doctors’ offices and hospitals are still paper-based is really a shame and is unacceptable...
...this year,” Akpan says. “I don’t want to say that I had a bad season, but it’s definitely something I want to improve upon next year.”Part of his disappointment is down to a slow start, in which Akpan failed to score in Harvard’s opening four matches.But Akpan says that while he struggled to find the net, he took the opportunity to improve on the defensive side of the ball. And his teammates took notice. “I was very impressed...
...root causes of fanaticism aren't a mystery. Some are external, like the rigid political oppression that exists in almost every Arab country. Some are internal, lying in the endemic ignorance and lack of education in those societies. Both can be changed, however slow and difficult the process...
...children back in Norway. "There are things here which you cannot get in Oslo and they are cheaper," she says. In its first three weeks, Westfield attracted 2 million visitors with its mix of haute couture and mass-market outlets, but on this particular midweek afternoon business is visibly slow, with security guards in Prada's Miu Miu store outnumbering customers by two to one and sales assistants outnumbering security guards by the same margin. The neighboring Rigby & Peller shop, offering the classic lingerie styles reputed to find favor with the Queen alongside racier, French maid-themed numbers, is also...