But slower global growth is not only due to the problems in the eurozone.
Regardless of how much ebooks grow this year, the fact is they probably will grow, but slower than last year.
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Again this has happened but slower than I would have expected.
The service is faster than DSL but slower than cable.
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But slower-than-expected ad spending could have ripple effects on a wide swath of companies depending on a strong advertising market, from Google and Facebook to hundreds of startups.
Telecommunications hardware companies have done a thriving business in China for most of the past decade, but slower demand and tough competition has taken a toll in the past year.
They are also being built-in to high-definition TV sets, which are big business in Japan and the US, but slower to take off in Europe because of the lack of high-definition programming.
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It's no secret that the CMO position is perhaps the least secure job in top management, with a turnover rate that's faster than major league managers but slower than that among quick service restaurant employees.
Stimulus and stabilization efforts initiated in 2008 and 2009 and tax cuts introduced in Chancellor Angela MERKEL's second term increased Germany's budget deficit to 3.3% in 2010, but slower spending and higher tax revenues reduce the deficit to 1.7% in 2011, below the EU's 3% limit.
South Korean men, meanwhile, have made steady but far slower inroads into the U.S. game.
Boston even managed to outscore the youthful Thunder 11-8 on the fast break, but that slower pace still wasn't effective.
Going forward we expect the growth to continue but at slower pace.
Apple iOS-based phones had 13.9% of the market, growing smartly in units from a year ago, but with slower growth than Android, losing share to 13.9%, from 15%.
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The lack of new projects may be seen as stagnation, but a slower creative process can also mean that the company is extremely thorough when filtering ideas.
"Provided the emergency generators worked and had enough power, they would have been able to return to port under their own power, but much slower, " said Andrew O.
Dubbed EDGE (for Enhanced Data for Global Evolution), it is available in more than 7, 500 cities, but offers slower download speeds of around 100 to 130 kilobits per second.
The government may also want to give some momentum to any natural cooling that could come this year, given that authorities forecast the economy to grow 1% to 3% in 2013, potentially faster than 2012's 1.2% expansion but considerably slower than in 2010 and 2011.
This is not to say that China, itself, is entering a recession, but a slower growth rate there (2nd largest economy) in combination with growth issues in the US (largest economy), Japan (3rd largest), and a significant recession in Europe bodes ill for worldwide growth and will eventually play out in the equity markets.
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Meanwhile, TeleGeography predicts VoIP growth will continue this year, but at a slower pace.
Retail sales are expected to grow this Christmas, but at a slower pace than last year.
We expect store count to continue increasing, but at a slower rate than in the past.
Business inventories grew in February, but at a slower pace than economists had expected.
But they are slower to see the Americans' case than they would have been a decade ago.
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Their sales are still growing, but at a slower pace than they were even in February 2011.
It said that expenses are expected to rise next quarter, but at a slower rate than revenue.
Overall, sales grew over the weekend from last year, but at a slower pace from the year before.
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We expect the downtrend in subscription fee to continue, but at a slower rate in the coming years.
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Real incomes continued to contract, but at a slower pace as inflation improves.
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Three months after Christmas, spending was still growing, but at a slower pace.
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