We figured the son's aggressive strategy of rapid acquisitions would best his father's plodding style.
Yet across the Rhine the preference is for plodding progress rather than grands projets.
They also enact the political philosophy Mr Blunkett sketched in a recent, plodding book.
In—to the sound of a crashing currency—comes none other than his plodding predecessor, Viktor Chernomyrdin.
On behalf of both halves of the island, Mr Clerides is plodding ahead with talks with the Union.
Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy were plodding, risk-averse and assiduously Swiss companies that often got trounced by faster, fiercer U.S. rivals.
The U.S. economy is plodding along in its recovery from the recession that stretched from December 2007 to June 2009.
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Mr Kaplan's biography recounts, in a plodding and not wholly reliable fashion, the salient events of Mr Vidal's colourful life.
She was brimming with energy—a floor pacer, a foot jiggler, a finger drummer—while he was slow and plodding and secretly somewhat lazy.
But this plodding approach means it can take years and sometimes even decades to tease out the most effective cancer drug combinations.
The CEO is The Man, plodding along the expected routes, expecting the same of his subordinates, becoming the figurehead of corporate oppression.
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In fact, the plodding pursuit of incremental improvements in security and the economy may well become the hallmark of Mr Yudhoyono's presidency.
Both bolster their prophecies of doom with plodding travelogue from developing countries.
The conclusion may well be that you are a dull plodding sort.
The U.S. continued to grow at the same plodding pace in December.
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Unfortunately, Mr Tanter's slightly plodding analysis is not written in that spirit.
With nothing but viscous sauces and foie gras plodding through my head, I feared that I had painted myself into a culinary corner.
Suddenly, it was as if Mr Bush was giving a different speech, powerful where he had been dutiful, passionate where he had been plodding.
Some miracle drugs emerge from eureka moments, but more often a new compound results from years of meticulous, plodding work championed by a true believer.
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