11.  Critics note what they regard as a pattern of slow response by the government and airlines to air disasters.

12.  Despite their cries, irate taxpayers and officials challenging the system say they have been frustrated by a slow response from state and federal authorities.

13.  Distances between the victims and police slow response time.

14.  Eleanor Holmes Norton, the delegate from Washington, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney of Manhattan, both Democrats, complained about the slow response to anthrax.

15.  Labor Party leaders joined environmentalists on Wednesday in condemning the government for what they said was its slow response in dealing with the Sea Empress.

16.  Nor should we panic at the chronic annoyances caused by slow response times or reluctantly loading Web pages.

17.  Officials say the slow response has clogged the court system, forced children into cramped portable classrooms and lengthened the waits for health services at some facilities.

18.  One part of the demonstration tape showed a slow response when a computer tried to connect to a Microsoft Web page.

19.  Privately, officials express anxiety over what they consider a very slow response by international aid agencies.

20.  Ridge on Sunday sharply criticized the federal government for what he said was a slow response to the flood.