Her family have said local medical staff were slow to spot the recurrence of her infection.
And profitable firms can be slow to spot changes in technology and tastes, allowing new entrants a foothold.
Yet, since the failures of Enron and WorldCom, S&P and Moody's, the two biggest rating agencies, have faced criticism for being too slow to spot looming corporate disasters.
They were also slow to spot that, although Google presented itself as a friend, it had all the hallmarks of a powerful enemy too.
Its inquiry into rendition concluded only that MI5 and MI6 had been slow to spot what the CIA had been doing.
Even Detroit manufacturers, which owned the youth market in the 50's and 60's but since then have been slow to spot trends, have tuned in.
They acknowledge being slow to spot the problem, mainly because the tire is the only part of the vehicle Ford doesn't warranty (the tire company does).
Yet the soaring bill for essentials is bound to make Britons worse off, and workers are not slow to spot it.Until recently, fear of an inflationary wage-price spiral seemed misplaced.
Investors caught holding Enron's investment-grade bonds as their price sank to below that of junk say that the agencies are just too slow to spot companies' declining health.
Mr. Schumer maintains that the Office of Thrift Supervision was slow to spot the problems at IndyMac, an offshoot of the Countrywide Financial Corporation, the giant mortgage company that has come to symbolize many of the excesses of the subprime era.
