slowdown

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Though one of the factors contributed to the slowdown is the impact of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the impact of this on both financial markets and consumer and investor expectations, Mr Gokarn also had a policy level explanation for the slowdown that has hit the global economy since late 2007.

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  • Still - while these are seem like small reprieve's from a potentially disastrous problem, this slowdown is all but delaying the inevitable - which is that oil is a limited resource and it will get more scarce no matter what, even if it takes a little longer. —  Rick Strahl's Web Log
  • The extent of the slowdown is a subject of endless debate among analysts, with some suggesting year-end contraction as low as 3.5 percent and others saying the market could slow down by as much as 10 percent or more, but one thing everyone seems to agree on is that smartphones are best positioned to continue to grow. —  Engadget Mobile
  • For machines where this is not the case, the slowdown is a mere logarithmic factor away from the natural bandwidth-based lower bound. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • In most situations the slowdown is acceptable and in particular situations compilers for functional languages can be faster than a C compiler. —  Artima Weblogs
  • When you do the math on what you were talking about with respect to revenue and gross margins and relatively flat OpEx you'll end up with barely breakeven operating margin for next quarter, I know you said that you're monitoring how deep this slowdown is and whether to cut back further, but is operating margin something you look at and how low would you let it go? —  Networking Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
 

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