Germany's slow response also has something to do with the personality of the chancellor, Angela Merkel.
And the government has finally issued an official apology for its slow response to the outbreak.
Some people in towns such as Langport and Martock have also reported slow response times and low police presence.
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Avon and Somerset Police have answered criticisms of slow response times and a lack of resources for rural areas.
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But Haiti's long-term social and political problems are also partly to blame for the slow response to the needs of the earthquake victims.
The German government has been criticised for its slow response but it is a country that remains staunchly committed to respecting the democratic process.
The more video the user wants to watch, the more other users on the network are crowded out by slow response times or dropped calls.
The key difference between last week's two IT bloopers is that the cyber-attack was exogenous while CBOE's software glitch and subsequent slow response were internal issues.
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There is still simmering resentment at the slow response of Ecevit's coalition government to two huge earthquakes in northwest Turkey in 1999 which killed some 18, 000 people.
The drawbacks of electrophoretic displays are that they have slow response times, since the pigment particles take time to move, and that colour versions are still in development.
The Iranian government has been criticised for its slow response.
Melissa Mounce, the company's senior vice president of corporate talent acquisition, says the company became concerned that its slow response time to applications was hurting its retail bank's brand.
At an AU meeting in Ethiopia on Sunday, which is continuing on Monday, outgoing AU chairman and Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi criticised the slow response of African states to the Malian conflict.
Given that this is an extremely early prototype, the E Ink device had a lot of bugs when we played with it: force closes, reboots and slow response are among the things we noticed.
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After that storm, the city was criticized for its slow response in clearing side streets and at least one death was blamed on the inability of an ambulance to get through an unplowed street.
Concern rippled around the world, fueled by a seemingly slow initial response by Japanese authorities.
The Bush administration has come under fire for what critics have called a slow federal response to the disaster.
Bloomberg -- who faced sharp criticism over the slow emergency response -- said New York was better equipped to tackle Wednesday's storm.
It feared that enabling the encryption would slow down response times as data was scrambled and unscrambled on a PC and Google's mail servers.
Tully sees a buying opportunity, particularly for those with medium and longer-term time frames, given the slow but steady response from physical markets.
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The judge in the case, irked by Morgan Stanley's slow and uneven response to document production requests, had instructed the jury that it could assume the investment bank aided Sunbeam in a fraud.
The timescale fuelled complaints from opposition parties that the Treasury response was too slow.
Ask Yoshihiko Noda, the prime minister, about the breakdown of trust and he admits there is a perception that the government's response has been slow.
This could complicate and slow down Germany's response to future crises.
But so far the response has been slow, hesitant and contradictory.
The Bank of England has also been criticised for being too slow to cut interest rates in response to the UK's worsening economic climate.
In the 1970s, investors were caught out by a sudden surge in global inflation, and were too slow to push yields higher in response.
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But even if prices do move, spending patterns may remain much the same for a while, because consumers tend to be slow to adjust their spending in response to price changes.
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