But because of the nature of this storm, we are certain that this is going to be a slow-moving process through a wide swath of the country, and millions of people are going to be affected.
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The latest problem, according to a new article in Acta Astronautica (we've really been meaning to renew our subscription), is that a space elevator would be so slow-moving (200 kph, or 124 mph) that the half-week spent in the Van Allen radiation belt would kill any living thing without proper shielding.
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By then it may be too late for slow-moving traditional businesses to respond.
Of 111 fast-moving Greenland glaciers studied, 81 were shown to be thinning at twice the rate as the slow-moving ice beside them.
At least there would be no more waiting in a slow-moving line to get 30 seconds in front a celebrity author.
While some analysts may be wary of spending patterns due to the slow-moving economic recovery, many point to the sector's progress from last year's comparable period.
Thelonious is the broken soul of the film (I understand how ridiculous that sounds), a forlorn, slow-moving character who seems to be pining for his more dignified past.
However, an evacuation could be ordered for a less intense hurricane if it were particularly slow-moving and carried greater flooding potential, he said.
But it clearly occurred to some of these displaced farmers that the slow-moving waters of the lower Tigris and Euphrates, near sea level, could be diverted using canals and used to water crops.
Today's worst programmes should be measured not against the best products of yesteryear but the worst: so slackly plotted, vapid and slow-moving that they are now almost unwatchable.
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