Economic growth in Michigan this year is expected to be weak at between 0.4% and 0.7%, and the unemployment rate is expected to fall only slightly from 8.9% in 2012 to 8.6% this year, according to the House of Representatives' and the Senate's fiscal agencies.
At the same time, they must be sensitive enough to transform even weak TV signals into clear images and function in sheltered places, like garages, and at moderate speeds, such as on trains or in fast-moving cars.
That said, they remain at a level that indicates growth will be weak by historic standards.
With export markets weak, demand will soon need to be privately generated at home.
But the IPO, which will probably be priced at mid-March, comes during a weak market.
But rates will only be held at current low levels if the economy remains weak.
However, patients with a weak immune system may not be able to do this - at which point the tuberculosis bacteria starts to spread in the lung.
Last year, Mazda climbed back into the black, though only just, and this year will be weak as well, with operating earnings expected to come in at 1.1bn yen.
It has also focused attention on how some international cruise companies operate, registering their ships in countries where there may be weak regulations or where international rules are poorly enforced, but at the same time headquartering their companies in the United States and Europe.
Weak sales growth may not be a big problem for the company at the moment, as it is able to turn out better than expected profits through controlled margins.
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As investors, this serves as a defensive governor on earnings because landlords are less likely to be forced to renew leases at a time when the market is weak.
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As a result of weak Europe, at least seven central banks in Asia will be making interest rate policy decisions in the next two weeks.
As many economists have pointed out, at this point in a weak recovery the government ought to be stimulating, as in spending to boost employment, and should save the belt-tightening, which indeed is badly needed, for when the conditions are less dire.
At the same time, most fear Obama is too weak to be an effective leader.
Most likely antitrust lawyers at the DOJ have been otherwise bored with the lack of merger deals to scrutinize (another downside to a weak economy), and this transaction just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The trouble with John Major was not just that he was too weak a personality to be an effective PM, but that he also made weak decisions - or did not make decisions at all.
Correctly or not, complaints from business groups that the carbon market and other climate policies are contributing to higher energy prices at a time when they are already grappling with a weak economy appeared to be decisive in Tuesday's vote.
Figure them in, and corporate performance turns out to be not so weak in the 1970s and 1980s, nor so terrific in the 1990s, as it at first appears to be.
Rio Ferdinand then had to be alert to deflect a Danny cross narrowly past the post, while at the other end a weak Carlos Tevez shot on 19 minutes was the best United could muster.
One might expect that at the ripe old age of 100 the company would be creaking along with brittle bones, weak knees, a bad heart, and finding it hard to get up in the morning.
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