Is the White House concerned that given the health care debate and other items that are waiting on the agenda that this is just too slow in coming and that these integral pieces will in fact not be passed by Congress?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Either way, this is an important puzzle and sceptics say it was too slow to be recognized as such.

BBC: Flooding in York

Although the Global Fund has earmarked money for this purpose, the way it is disbursed means that the process is too slow and too fragmented to give firms that sort of reassurance.

ECONOMIST: Treating malaria

Rather than whine on the sidelines that the JC Penney turnaround is too slow or strategically unsound, we should all be cheering this guy for having the gumption to attempt to re-invent an entire business model.

FORBES: Don't Write off JC Penney Just Yet.

This is the pace of science: really slow, even when it seems like things are moving too fast to keep up.

FORBES: Life Made In The Lab! (But Don't Freak Out)

Yasser Arafat threatens to declare an independent Palestinian state this month, 51 years after the founding of Israel, if the progress of peace talks is too slow.

ECONOMIST: January