The crowds are so dense that vehicles crawl at a snail's pace amid the tight human mass.

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The inertia of banking and insurance customers is legendary, allowing banks and insurers to adopt new technology at a snail's pace.

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It is no more than "hopeware" -- since the 1950s, Artificial Intelligence has moved at a snail's pace compared to what proponents have predicted.

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He notes that cases before the Nigerian courts are moving at a snail's pace and few of the plaintiffs have any faith in the local justice system.

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One of the most sensitive issues in Turkey's political life today is its long-standing application to join the EU. The EU has been moving at a snail's pace regarding the application.

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"The story moves at a snail's pace, " Bret continued.

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Shared with several Welsh trade unions, in the final unhappy few years of the party's time in office in Westminster, work began on a makeover - but proceeded at a snail's pace.

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In the wake of the June 7 parliamentary polls, the euphoria over the country's first free elections in more than 40 years has given way to anxious tedium as the vote count proceeds at a snail's pace.

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That's when Inspector Gadget goes into action, traveling back and forth across the triple-braided tether at a snail-like .006 mph, all the while using its built-in camera to search for damage caused by radiation, micrometeoroids, and other nasty space stuff.

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It's a system that sprang up in the postwar era to prevent the travesties of summary justice seen under fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, but in reality it means that justice can be delayed until it's denied as cases move at a snail's pace through the bloated legal machine.

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They will be spoken about at length, withdrawn before a vote, reincarnated at report stage, debated at length again, and then voted on at snail's pace, and then revisited in a different form at third reading.

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And once again markets have digested the news, which shows a weak economy, growing at snail speed, and slowing down.

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Most WAP phones download data at 9.6 kilobits per second, a snail's pace compared to the typical desktop dial-up speed of 56 kbps.

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Mr David Nunn, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Guy's Hospital, London, believes the snail slime could be useful.

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