When cancer strikes, the patient may never know it, so poky is the pace of this invader.
The Internet is poky by design--and there are hard chairs in the computer room to discourage work.
The modems seemed a bit poky, and these machines don't have sufficient memory for much online gaming.
The threat posed by the fidgety remote control and the poky VCR pales in comparison with the digital threat.
Anybody who whines that online shopping is a poor substitute for the real thing has obviously never been to Amazon's website, nor a poky Hong Kong bookstore.
And the old phone's relatively poky data connection means applications that rely on a connection to the Internet will crawl along without access to a wi-fi hot spot.
An e-mail from one of Brown's clients must pass through a poky, clogged--though mostly free--"public" access point in California, rather than zip along the snazzy but expensive Uunet hub.
An e-mail from one of Brown's clients must pass through a poky, clogged--but mostly free--"public" access point in California, rather than zip along the snazzy but expensive Uunet hub.
At 15 he started, 48 hours a week chopping up fish in some poky hole, getting shocks from the finning machine, steeping his skinned, sore hands in brine or pickle-juice.
Most people grumble when their broadband connections are poky.
The market leaders are poky Singaporean outfits like Creative Labs the kind of company that Sony used to crush like a bug, back before it got borged by its entertainment unit and PC companies like Apple.
But the desire to stuff the City back into the narrow streets and poky buildings to which it was confined before Big Bang is at odds with the requirements of another kind of rebalancing: for exports to fire the economy at a time when government and consumers are tackling their debts.
We're also worried that a slate PC designed like this won't have a way of protecting the screen from the sharp poky objects that sometimes accidentally make their way into our bag -- we'd feel much more secure with some sort of scratchproof glass up front instead of this soft plastic finish.
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Within hours of landing, I had sat at the organ upon which George Frideric Handel played the London premiere of "Messiah, " stood in the poky little room where Charles Dickens wrote "Oliver Twist, " and accepted my award upon the very spot that the residence of Lord Peter Wimsey had once stood, at 110A Piccadilly.
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That's a nice way of saying that during recent years the Harvard Management Company, the university's investment subsidiary, diverted large portions of the university's endowment assets out of safe but poky low-yield securities (as of last June fixed-income investments accounted for only 16% of Harvard's portfolio) and into what this Forbes story describes as "exotic financial instruments": derivatives, hedge funds, private equity partnerships, commodities and emerging-market equities.
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