The eurozone is largely seen as the biggest drag at this point.
There was some concern that both programs would only work for the short-term and be a drag at some point due to possibly stealing sales from future quarters.
But Honda discovered this would reduce drag at cruising speeds.
The tussle added three months to the merger schedule--a drag at the time, but as HP insiders now say, it gave them breathing room to sort out operational details.
In contrast, if the affair is left to drag on at a lawyerly pace attention will begin to fade.
This battle, pitting wounded Gallic pride against American self-assurance, will drag on until at least the end of the year.
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Cook is one of the best in the nation at dB Drag racing, as this pursuit is called.
That's putting an abnormal drag on the economy at a very bad time.
Thanks in part to ideas born at dB Drag events, the acoustic power of car stereo speakers has increased tenfold in the last ten years, from a maximum of 500 watts per square meter to 5, 000. (A loudspeaker at a rock concert puts out 2, 500 to 3, 000 watts.) Pioneer learned from dB Dragsters to cover speaker coils with ceramics to dissipate heat.
Sustained higher prices at the pump will act as a drag on GDP by obstructing consumption, yet inflation remains at comfortable levels for the Fed, which is expected to continue with its ultra-accommodative monetary stance.
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It is a track with plenty of long straights and everyone will be looking to run a car with minimum drag -- much like at Monza -- in order to eek out the best top speed.
That could, at a stretch, drag things out until next spring, and a British general election (though Gordon Brown can wait until June 2010 if he wants to).
The company is busily installing "winglets, " upward-pointing extensions at wingtips that reduce aerodynamic drag and save fuel.
When things drag on, fans taking casual notice at the beginning tend to tune in for games six and seven.
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Andrei Loktionov had the prettiest goal for New Jersey, with a toe-drag move that left goalie Ilya Bryzgalov at his mercy.
Even if the south has no chance of winning the oil back, it may drag out legal proceedings to satisfy its hotheads at home.
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In other words, REO properties, which typically auction off at highly discounted prices, drag the prices of all the other homes for sale in the area down.
Weakening U.S. labor and factory activity has begun to drag on Mexican growth after the economy grew at a more than 4 percent rate in the first half of 2012, although exports rebounded in July.
He alluded to evidence given by his client's mother Maxine, 45, who admitted seeing her son pull the hair of one of his alleged victims and drag her to a car after she spat at him.
After the tsunami Hawaii still attracts thousands of visitors daily: the huge Waikiki hotel and downtown Honolulu office infrastructure remains intact, and if one wanders down the main tourist drag of Kalakaua Avenue, the tourist throngs at the omnipresent Starbucks, MacDonalds, and surfboard rental shops reflect a calm, business-as-usual atmosphere, as if there never was such a terrible tragedy across the Pacific Ocean.
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Government employee rolls at state and municipal levels remain a drag on the jobless rate.
The mouse at Xerox PARC could not be used to drag a window around the screen.
The economy is only growing at a moderate pace, so that additional drag would be "significant, " he said.
Instead, it will probably fight the case at the WTO, a process that could drag on for quite some time.
Rather than drag Wang to Detroit, Charlene found her a slot at the pricey College Preparatory School in Oakland, California.
The fluids exerted a drag, causing the samples to move to and fro at the same frequency with which the machine jiggled, but with a slight delay.
"It's the last thing in the world I'd like to do, but I also understand what people are paying at the pump, and I understand the drag it is on our economy, " Crist told the St.
Precision is unlikely, but at least money needs some growth to prevent a drag on real growth.
It was pushed to this height recently to take it clear of residual air molecules at the top of the atmosphere that tend to drag it downwards over time.
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