Consumer spending grew more slowly in the second quarter than the first, though fortunately it is still growing, at an annual rate of 1.9%.
Other economic data have been mixed: gross domestic product grew by 1.9%, annualised, in the first quarter, and economists think it is growing a bit faster in the current quarter.
Interest in pet health insurance has been growing rapidly since it was first introduced in the United States in the early 1980s.
Was it the first sign of a disturbance that had been growing secretly?
This gets such a high ranking in my mind because it was the first important sign that Social TV was growing fast.
The Hong Kong park is predicted to attract a healthy 5.6m visitors in its first year, with numbers rising as it taps into the growing wealth of China's middle class.
It first raised taxes, in a bid to cut the growing fiscal deficit, then reversed course recently with a series of stimulative tax cuts.
The Netherlands would not be the natural first choice for anyone starting a flower-growing business today were it not for the fact that the business is already there.
Social media training is quickly becoming mandatory for an ever-growing range of companies, far surpassing the first wave of IT firms that rolled it out two years ago, like Dell, Intel and IBM.
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He said the "beds in sheds" problem was growing and dealing with it was perhaps "more complicated then it first appears".
It is the Fed's first rate cut in four years and comes in the middle of a growing sense of crisis in financial markets.
It has been growing by far more than that (rising 5.8% in the first six months of 2000 compared with the second half of 1999).
Apple's first two versions of the iPad transformed the market for tablet computers and made it one of the fastest-growing sectors of the computer industry.
So firms are reluctant to be the first to close a factory lest it should lead to lower market share, or to forgo investment in a growing market.
In fact, it is the growing use of networks that has caused the problem to get so bad in the first place.
If the economy is either extremely slow growing or if it takes a turn for the worse, these industries could be some of the first to feel the effect.
It is a symptom of their growing prosperity that these parts of the population have, probably for the first time, almost unlimited access to the greatest amount of calories for the smallest amount of money.
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