But their growth has slowed to a crawl in the wake of the recession.
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But consolidation has slowed to a crawl in recent months, and cost-cutting has slowed with it.
Ongoing construction brought traffic to a crawl in the most unexpected places.
Mr McFarlane complains about creelers, who place pots baited with rotting fish on the seabed and wait for inquisitive prawns to crawl in.
It was a thrill to step out of the bus queue, resentfully observed by ordinary passengers as I turned from frog to princess and stooped to crawl in beside the professor.
At the time, the state-of-the-art means for clearing a cave was to tie a rope around the waist of an infantryman, who would crawl in and toss ahead a grappling hook to probe for mines or booby traps.
But then there were fewer dogs to bark at me as I passed under the trees, and, where the dog was big, so was the dog door, and I could crawl in and avail myself of the canned and packaged foods in kitchen pantries.
America should be fast tracking this treatment, not slowing the adoption process to the crawl involved in drug approval.
We're not afraid to crawl down in the dark hole with someone else.
When that happens, critical decisions slow to a crawl, trapped in an endless cycle of data collection and debate.
Most analysts are hesitant to call for anything above a slow crawl to growth in consumer spending this year, but some are projecting solid rebound on holiday spending.
In Illinois, Shannon Wilfong is charged with child abduction, allegedly having forced 6-year-old Richard K. Wilfong Chekevdia to live in seclusion and be hidden, at times in crawl spaces and the attic, for nearly two years, according to court documents.
The crazy ants nest in walls, crawl spaces, house plants or empty containers in the yard, researchers said.
Sanwa and its partners, less handicapped by petty rivalries, may yet creep ahead in this crawl to the finish.
Generally speaking, I recommend this only if you're trying to hide a body in the crawl space or, perhaps, if one particular room has been unjust and you simply seek revenge.
All products ever shipped from the Peanut Corp. of America plant in Plainview were recalled after the Texas Department of State Health Services said it found dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers in a crawl space above a production area on Wednesday.
Called PageRank, it employs computer robots to crawl the Web for clues in content that can signal how websites are connected.
Part urban ramble, part bar crawl, the route takes in South Bank views and a hidden basement drinking den, and is designed to showcase the beauty of the city as it fades to night.
The duo came up with tours in the tradition of the theatrical pub crawl (although no alcohol is involved), where the guides present information in the guise of an interactive performance.
For those interested in joining, the crawl costs 120 Argentinean pesos, and reservations can be made on the website.
Why should a hotel desk lamp merely provide light when it can also contain an electrical outlet and a phone jack for your laptop so you don't have to crawl around the floor plugging stuff in?
In recent months, the biodiesel RIN market has slowed to a crawl, seeing fewer trades per week than it used to in a day.
They have to crawl off the field and mash anything in a blue jersey.
In a way, you crawl into the phone and you're by yourself, playing the game.
No wonder, given that French growth slowed to a 0.8% crawl (at an annual rate) in the third quarter.
Participants on a 10-to-12 mile Tough Mudder course wade through waist-deep mud, crawl under barbed wire, submerge themselves in ice water and jump through fire.
In a country trying to crawl out of its worst economic crisis for more than a century, it is not surprising that the environment comes low on the agenda.
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Pretty much everyone has a continuous stream of internal monologue running in their head, like the crawl at the bottom of the TV screen.
But on some older sections of track in Germany they slow to a crawl, and they must carry seven boxes of expensive signalling gear.
It's able to navigate through 18 inches of water, crawl over boulders and rubble piles, and move in ahead of rescuers to evaluate precarious environments and help plan operations.
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