Day, as the nation's first black president was being sworn in for a second time, was a reminder to all of us that at times equality can feel like a slow train coming ... but we cannot grow weary because it is coming.

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When I started doing these videos last November, I said Europe is a slow motion train wreck.

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This system, Positive Train Control (PTC), is intended to stop or slow a train automatically if a driver goes too fast or passes a red signal.

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The rest of the world is looking on in horror as a slow motion economic train wreck unfurls.

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For instance, you may not have chosen to act, but the 2007-2009 equity bear market was a slow-moving train wreck where you had ample time to make adjustments, even if you had already seen a meaningful decline in your equity portfolio.

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Nonetheless, a weak market for takeouts clearly will slow the repayment train.

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People travelling from Camberley to London now have to take the slow train or drive five miles to Farnborough to get a train which takes 43 minutes.

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It's like watching a train speeding headlong towards a brick wall and it isn't even like watching it in slow motion any more.

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