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In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron blamed the riots and looting on what he called a "slow-motion moral collapse."

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Mr. Duncan told reporters that he was acting because Congress had failed to rewrite the Bush-era law, which he called a "slow-motion train wreck."

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But what the local MP was calling the "slow-motion moral collapse" of parts of Britain touches even rural West Oxfordshire.

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In a recent Huffington Post item 8/8/2011, Joy Resmovits reported: On Monday, the Obama administration said it would use waivers to provide regulatory relief to states, confirming an earlier plan that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan first mentioned in June in light of what he called a "slow-motion train wreck" created by the law."

Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Has Arne Duncan Seen the Light? Joel Shatzky 2011

In a recent Huffington Post item 8/8/2011, Joy Resmovits reported: On Monday, the Obama administration said it would use waivers to provide regulatory relief to states, confirming an earlier plan that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan first mentioned in June in light of what he called a "slow-motion train wreck" created by the law."

Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Has Arne Duncan Seen the Light? Joel Shatzky 2011

Eventually she disappeared with one of the pursuing males, leaving the others to smooch sadly with one another, in what Fry described as a "slow-motion ballet".

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When NATO vaticinated that Muammar Gaddafi was on the cusp of filicide U.S. leaders felt morally obligated to bomb Libya -- a double standard of historic proportions considering they've stood idly by while Pakistan conducts systemic slaughter in Balochistan province in what historian Selig Harrison has described as "slow-motion genocide."

Michael Hughes: U.S. Enables Pakistan's Oppression of Balochistan Michael Hughes 2011

When NATO vaticinated that Muammar Gaddafi was on the cusp of filicide U.S. leaders felt morally obligated to bomb Libya -- a double standard of historic proportions considering they've stood idly by while Pakistan conducts systemic slaughter in Balochistan province in what historian Selig Harrison has described as "slow-motion genocide."

Michael Hughes: U.S. Enables Pakistan's Oppression of Balochistan Michael Hughes 2011

Eventually she disappeared with one of the pursuing males, leaving the others to smooch sadly with one another, in what Fry described as a "slow-motion ballet".

The Guardian World News Phil Hogan 2011

So if this is a flip flop, it might better be described as a slow-motion one that's taken a few few months to pull off.

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