61.  While the Bell telephone companies could emerge as cable competitors, technological and regulatory snags have slowed their progress.

62.  While most tribes did not formally oppose the bill, several groups worked behind the scenes to slow its progress.

63.  Operations may be continued for another week because bad weather in the Far Eastern region is slowing progress, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.

64.  Progress was slowed by thunderstorms in the area on Wednesday and Thursday.

65.  A knee injury and a back muscle problem have slowed his progress in recent years.

66.  And new efforts to press Israel to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty and open its facilities to outside nuclear inspectors could also slow progress.

67.  But progress has been slowed by political indecisiveness.

68.  But federal funding cuts have slowed progress, jeopardizing that goal.

69.  But hard-line politicians on all three sides and ethnic mistrust have slowed progress.

70.  But progress has been slowed by Serb anger over the arrest of two senior military officers linked to war crimes.