While Romney plods on, Perry version 2.0 was released this week.

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Now we watch in horrified fascination as a speaker plods through every word on slide after slide with 20 lines or more of text on them.

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The Windies are 21 runs behind the follow-on target as Trinidadian Ramdin plods the singles off Swann alongside his senior colleague Sarwan, who has been imperious today.

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Second, the plot plods along at several points in the movie, and becomes quite boring, even for those, like me, with a high interest in the subject matter.

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What gave the story its edge was not the fact that Mr Mitchell had abused the police, but the fact he allegedly called them plebs - the clear implication being that he thought he was a cut above mere plods.

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Mr Soderman plods through them dutifully.

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As tension between the US and EU and Iran heats up, as a tenuous peace dialogue plods along in the Middle East, and as the withdrawal from Iraq continues, a state stuck in between these conflicts with unclear alliances can be a powder keg, unless Brussels changes its mind.

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