31.  The program was in the works before a Blue Ribbon Committee on Slum Housing issued a report last month criticizing the city for a slow response to slum conditions.

32.  The report notes that this slow response could boost the cost of repairing the problem.

33.  The slow response of public health authorities to the menace at postal facilities is understandable.

34.  There were frequent system crashes, agonizingly slow response times and missing, incomplete, delayed or even inaccurate results.

35.  They lambasted his support for despotic leaders in Africa and what they described as his slow response to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the East Bloc.

36.  When that happens, he said, the resident may perceive the slow response as an indication that the board does not sincerely wish to cooperate.

37.  A Swedish-Finnish commission blamed the disaster on faulty locks on the bow doors and a slow response by the crew.

38.  A report three years later blamed faulty locks on the bow doors and a slow response by the crew.

39.  Chief Minister Keshubahi Patel, the top elected official of Gujarat state, where the quake hit, denied charges of a slow response.

40.  First, she had to face the slow response of the operator, then the musical chairs routine of being hustled from extension to extension.