It recently confirmed it had resumed the conversion of medium enriched uranium into oxide fuel to slow down growth of its stockpile.
The sharp EU-led export destruction in July-August surprised and dragged down growth.
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As a result, Beijing has been trying to implement measures, in a bid to curb speculation and cool down growth in the sector.
It added that the ongoing debt crisis and the high levels of unemployment in the eurozone were likely to weigh down growth in that region.
That risks a demand deflation spiral, which is sure to increase the debt burden and sharply slow down growth, not to mention stress the financial system.
We will continue to cooperate with the Federal Reserve Board, seeking a steady policy that ensures price stability without keeping interest rates artificially high or needlessly holding down growth.
In 1982 rezoning to move development west to Times Square worked all too well, significantly tamping down growth in Midtown East, now at a pitiable 0.06% over the past decade.
Though it is more optimistic about the immediate room for growth, the OBR has revised down its growth forecasts for the next few years, and once again deferred the time at which we will get back to our long-term potential growth rate, which they now think will not happen until 2016.
For instance, at Goldman revenue growth is down 31% over the three-year period from 2010 through the first half of 2012, but headcount growth is down just 1% in the same period.
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Refurbish stores, don't give up on all high-end merchandise and stick to down market growth overseas.
The most important quantitatively in holding down the growth of our future income is rising inequality.
That FedEx will tamp down its Asian business reflects the slow-down in growth that the region faces.
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It would slow down our growth, might tip us into recession, and ironically, would probably increase our deficit.
Until now, the main channel through which global turmoil has dragged down American growth has been international trade.
They don't kill the virus but they slow down its growth, which ultimately slows the progression of the disease.
Linked, that is, like dead trees in a forest pulling down new growth.
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One of the most promising ways of increasing strength is by blocking a protein called myostatin that slows down muscle growth.
If price increases encourage more sellers to test the market, the new supply could boost sales volumes while tamping down price growth.
Companies paying dividends, he has often argued publicly, tend to invest less in expanding their businesses and, thereby, slowing down their growth.
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There is more evidence of slack in the labour market, where weak demand for new workers is helping to hold down wage growth.
It is possible that the stock market has already discounted a slow down in growth if not the dreaded double-dip in the year ahead.
If there were a serious deflationary slowdown, that would certainly make life trickier for banks, especially if it were to drag down economic growth.
Housing slowdowns drag down GDP growth in two ways: by slamming the brakes on the construction industry, and by making consumers feel poorer so they spend less.
The reason is that China is on a path of deceleration after overheating, all of which requires a scaling down in growth expectations over the next several years.
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Furthermore, it became apparent that the economic recovery in the U.S. was also developing slower than anticipated, especially as more companies began ratcheting down their growth estimates for the year.
Thus my insistence that at least some part of the slow down in growth and innovation is simply because of the regulatory structure that stops you, sometimes, from doing new things.
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Together, these factors can slow down coral growth.
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But it has been forced to revise downwards its estimate of the overall state of economy after it admitted that it had not included some figures in the latest estimates for GDP that would bring down the growth rate further.
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