1 There has been a sharp slowdown in economic growth.

2 The slowdown in domestic demand was offset by an increase in exports.

3 The economic slowdown has caused our sales to plateau.

4 The union threatened a slowdown if their demands were not met.

5 Any slowdown in the economy is going to be a drag on the President's re-election campaign.

6 But this can not fully explain the slowdown.

7 Most companies have been hurt by the economic slowdown.

8 The world's richest countries also showed a slowdown.

9 Not all companies are being hurt by the slowdown.

10 Market research at that time indicated a slowdown in the beef sales trend away from the butchers.

11 Worldwide premiums fell, mainly due to the slowdown in the property market, as much of the division's business is mortgage-related.

12 He also warned that a slowdown in money supply growth this summer could threaten the recovery at just the wrong moment.

13 Only 24 percent said the slowdown in building activity had freed up enough planners and inspectors to speed up processing time.

14 Does the evidence therefore suggest that the slowdown so far is much too abrupt?

15 A slowdown in investment may not hit growth for a while.

16 Shearson yesterday blamed the continued slowdown in market activity and excess capacity for the redundancies.

17 He cautioned, however, that a sharp slowdown would affect economic activity in California.

18 In recent years -- not withstanding a recession-induced slowdown in 1992 -- corporate spending on culture has experienced a small boom.

19 The recent slowdown in the US economy is likely to have a considerable impact on the rest of the world.

20 The Energy Department also sees a slowdown in economic growth after 2010, when baby boomers will start retiring.

21 With the abrupt economic slowdown, credit card companies expect more delinquencies and bankruptcies.

22 Recent reactor accidents have caused a marked slowdown in the installation of nuclear power stations.

23 It's impossible to assess how many officers are participating in the slowdown.

24 But falling morale ran deeper than the nation-wide economic slowdown.

25 Cisco spent most of the session in negative territory after the company warned it was feeling the effects of an economic slowdown.

26 But the soaring incomes of top executives are not the major issue in the great productivity slowdown.

27 As mentioned in the previous section,[] there are sound reasons for the slowdown in big-city population decline.

28 A string of economic figures published after the rate cut point to an economic slowdown.

29 Manufacturing has been one of the industries hardest hit in the nationwide economic slowdown.

30 In 1988, the 10-year budget flagged a shortfall looming about five years out, because of a slowdown in population growth.

1 There has been a sharp slowdown in economic growth.

2 The slowdown in domestic demand was offset by an increase in exports.

31 The deficit also is growing because of an economic slowdown that has reduced the amount of taxes collected, government officials say.

32 The company said its third-quarter sales, particularly during November, were affected by the general slowdown in consumer activity.

33 The slowdown in buying corresponds with a stock market retreat that cut 165 points off the Dow industrials on Tuesday and Wednesday.

34 A significant erosion of household wealth could accentuate a slowdown.

35 The developed world has experienced a sharp slowdown in growth.

36 They also look for a slowdown in business spending and relatively weak exports.

37 There clearly is a slowdown in the world chip market, but not a shrinkage.

38 Now the administration is proclaiming it as the solution to the dramatic slowdown in the economy that began last autumn.

39 Mr Greenspan is keen to portray the current slowdown as mild and short-lived.

40 The slowdown has dented the bottom lines of some of the biggest players in the market.

41 A new federal survey on the growing shortage of nurses portrays a stagnant workforce with a dramatic slowdown in nursing school enrollments.

42 But with the collapse of global markets and parallel slowdown in developed nations' economies, the dangers have risen significantly.

43 Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is worried about the sharp slowdown in monetary growth.

44 The slowdown will result partly from sluggishness in nondurable sectors such as apparel and textiles.

45 The plot of rotation rates in Fig. 1 a shows the residuals relative to this normal slowdown.

46 As economies mature, they say, economic slowdown comes with the territory.

47 The political reality is that Connecticut is suffering from the economic slowdown that has hit most of the north-east.

48 Trends in other commodities also belie a broader slowdown.

49 The figures underlining the global slowdown in investment banking.

50 But it may presage a longer slowdown.

51 But the scale of the slowdown has emboldened some.

52 Insurance companies are certainly not immune to economic slowdown.

53 His successor , Ben Bernanke , did best to allay fears of an immoderate slowdown.

54 The sudden economic slowdown was an changer for the election.

55 Economists react to the Chinese government's new plan to boost spending to reverse a slowdown in economic growth. The government's Chinese-language statement announcing the plan can be found here.

56 Code that has these qualities is maintainable, breaking the slowdown/rewrite cycle, and providing true[/slowdown.html], lasting value.

57 The new fundraising, which closely-held Tudou made public Monday, reflects investors' continued strong interest in China amid a global economic slowdown.

58 HSBC's preliminary estimate for Chinese manufacturing fell to 51.1 (see chart), well below the long-term average of 52.3, confirming a slowdown evident in April's industrial-production figures.

59 The company's share price was off 5 percent after its slowdown in sales.

60 Mathew Solnik, a security consultant with iSEC Partners, said he doesn't see any signs of a slowdown with the sale of credit card data or personal information online.

61 "I would not interpret the currently very flat yield curve as indicating a significant economic slowdown to come," Bernanke said in his first speech to Wall Street as head of the Fed in March 2006.

62 But they will conveniently forget about your hero anointment a few hours later when they have trouble printing because of a network slowdown — you will be enemy No. 1 at that moment.

63 The production slowdown could affect prices on the goods they make so we can buy from them. The left here in America must be fit to be tied.

64 "With the inventory cycle heading into a small de-stocking phase and the overseas economy slowing, the range of the slowdown will possibly surpass expectations," the paper said on Thursday.

65 Jing pointed out that China's economic slowdown, both the property and stock markets nose-dive , the Chinese consumer is a major test of adaptability.

66 But the moderate slowdown was widely anticipated and is not a cause for concern for economists, many of whom were worried about China's economy overheating and falling in danger of rampant inflation.

67 At any hint of a slowdown they shed theshort - timers.

68 A year on as they get together at L'Aquila and it is more than a slowdown.

69 Discussed braking problem while electric propulsion system slowdown and shut down.

70 Its beginning obscured by unemployment caused by the world economic slowdown, the new technological unemployment may emerge as the great socioeconomic challenge of the end of the 20th century.

71 The durable goods orders report should help to allay fears of a marked slowdown in factory activity.

72 In the international area, business is business, your economic slowdown only shows your incompetence, it has nothing to do with us.

73 The Purchasing Managers Index for October shows business activity in the euro zone is faltering, with France in particular entering a sharp slowdown.

74 Such diversity points to two immediate lessons: macroeconomic cycles matter more than politicians will admit, and the slowdown is not all about Anglo-Saxon sinfulness.

75 And because China is a major holder of United States Treasury debt and a major destination for American investment in recent years, any slowdown would also hurt American cpanies.

76 However, in the third quarter than the growth ring , some banks have registered negative growth showed faint signs of slowdown.

77 As the slowdown gathered steam last year, Europe's steel-pipe producers decided to try another tack.

78 Back in Grand Island, though, there seems to be no slowdown.

79 Its beginning obscured by unemployment caused by the world economic slowdown(1), the new technological unemployment(2)may emerge as the great socioeconomic challenge of the end of the 20th century(3).

80 Advertising and media net revenue declined 10 percent in the third quarter to $15 million on a year-on-year basis, reflecting the overall slowdown in the economy and the travel industry.

81 The primary data suggests that there is a slowdown in this market.

82 Now, as China appears on course to achieve a gentle slowdown this year, a new question has begun to crystalise : could this year's soft landing turn into a hard one next year?

83 As a result of the global economic slowdown, Indonesia's rate of economic growth went from 12 percent last year to 4.3 percent.

84 On past form the slowdown seemed likely to presage a long slump.

85 As the slowdown gathered steam last year, Europe's steel-pipe producers and their lawyers decided to try another tack.

86 Inflation and a US slowdown are risks to the US.

87 By setting CHNGPGS_THRESH to a lower amount like 20%, the page cleaners will be triggered more often, but less data will be written to disk, and the slowdown may be unnoticeable by your users.

88 The apparent invulnerability of emerging economies to the US slowdown is noteworthy.

89 Analogously, the slowdown in population growth puts pressure on Social Security finances.

90 Chinese officials and economists are now more worried about a precipitating slowdown than an inflationary build - up.

91 Report points out that the economic slowdown, both the property and stock markets nose-dive , the Chinese consumer is a major test of adaptability.

92 And because China is a major holder of United States Treasury debt and a major destination for American investment in recent years, any slowdown would also hurt American companies.

93 The roots for this event lay in the joint forces of the economic slowdown, the political setbacks of the German Democratic Republic, and the influence of the Soviet Union.

94 Slowdown tactics used against him-his 1950 Lakers lost 19-18 to the Fort Wayne Pistons in the lowest-scoring game in NBA history.

95 Due to insecure Internet browsing your PC can easily get infected with viruses, worms and trojans without your knowledge, and that can lead to system slowdown , freezes and crashes.

96 Demand for larger and higher-priced televisions have also been weaker than the industry hoped as consumers have become more cautious due to worries about an economic slowdown.

97 Nearly all segments of the mar ket have been affected, although traditional carriers and hotels are bearing the brunt of the slowdown.

98 As an excellent registry cleaner, it can do a complete scan of the pc errors such as system slowdown, freezing, crashing and deadlock.

99 The slowdown can be accounted for by the overhead associated with an extra method being called on each array item.

100 Ironically it was a stable "slosh" of Yuans that bought so much of US T-bills to help slowdown the US financial burnout and hold its financial credit ratings.

101 Taking into account the rolling load is uneven, to balance electrical loads and reduce the electrical capacity slowdown in the increase between a flywheel and electric motors.

102 In an early read on the weekend, ShopperTrak said on Saturday that Black Friday sales rose 3 percent to $10.6 billion. That was a slowdown from the prior year when sales on that day rose 8.3 percent.

103 The construction slowdown plus the Bad weather has made for a weak market.

104 A rapid rollout of China's high-speed rail network was followed in July by a slowdown after a fatal train crash: technocracy did not prevent corruption and poor quality-control.

105 That said, if the troubles in Greece lead to a slowdown across Europe, it could choke off our economic recovery as Europe as a whole is a major trading partner.

106 People are already using this economic slowdown to retool and reorient economies.

107 China has been dampening down its economy because of over-heating, and the emerging world in general is vulnerable to a slowdown in the west.

108 If the economic slowdown continues, the Fed may have to dole out the hard stuff, in the form of more QE, later this year.

109 The Canadian dollar could be another, less obvious way to play a Chinese slowdown(), particularly for those feeling gloomy about the U.

110 These all point to a looming economic slowdown, but it would probably take something more serious to trigger another all-out global slump.

111 It is an overall slowdown across the world, with some countries getting close to zero-growth and recession.

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113 Extractive industries are expected to contract sharply amid a stark slowdown of China's real GDP growth.

114 An indication of the depth of the slowdown in the UK came as inflation on the retail price index tumbled last month to its lowest level since 1960.

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115 A sharper-than-expected slowdown, however, would increase pressure on Mr. Sarkozy's government to announce large, unpopular spending cut.

116 This readjustment, when it comes, will inevitably lead to a slowdown.

117 We may be in a recession; then again, we may be just stuck in an ill-defined "economic slowdown" — not a great place to be, but not as scary as the R word.

118 The energy-saving principles and the problems and technical countermeasures for the energy-saving technique with ship slowdown and engine derating are analyzed and studied in detail in the paper.

119 This is because as individuals find it harder to make ends meet in this economic slowdown, there is evidence that some things — like unsecured debt — are starting to move down on the priority list.

120 While Dongxiaokou's scrap yards have epitomized China's industrial boom over the past two decades, the global economic slowdown has left the scrappers struggling as prices for raw materials plummet.

121 The PMI figures indicate a large manufacturing slowdown in the fourth quarter.

122 Discussed braking problem while electric propulsion system slowdown and shut down . 3.

123 The effects of a global economic slowdown would ripple into south - eastern Europe.

124 An economic slowdown was already under way before the stockmarket collapsed.

125 But the threat of a wrenching slowdown is becoming worryingly plausible.

126 Before the data's release[ ], government leaders met to map out a strategy for countering the slowdown.

127 The global economic slowdown has resulted in the decline in China's foreign trade and halted the trend of export expansion since 1999.

128 Part of this is down to the pathfinding, with the new algorithms making sure that you won't encounter late-game slowdown when trying to move hundreds of units.

129 He projects a slowdown in the rate of expansion of world trade.

130 The average EPS and earnings yield of net assets in recent years indicate a serious slowdown for Shaanxi's listed companies.

131 But Toyota denied an across - the - board slowdown in vehicle development.

132 Finally the study reports on research that links knowledge of languages to a slowdown of age-related mental diminishment such as certain forms of dementia.

133 The spindle positioning speed is controlled by sub-rotating circles and the shortest delay slowdown deceleration time, and it is realized by controlling the CVT Drives and PLC program.

134 His speech did not even mention military spending and suggested no slowdown in military modernisation.