Though its growth is a slow burn, the dark horse in race is Microsoft.

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I'm a slow burn kind of guy.

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With a high profile case on a slow burn people are watching to see where the line gets drawn between an idea as a critical gestation point that should be totally protected by patents, ideas as a gestation point we can deal with respectfully, and protect and nurture without legal enforcement, and the ideas are ten a penny attitude.

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There are elaborate experimental fusion reactors all over the globe, and they have made steady but achingly slow progress toward a controlled, self-sustaining burn.

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Hushpuppy's shrill trills of joy, and the slow burn of her comprehension as she sees her father where he'd feared to be, in a hospital bed, plugged into the wall.

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