Inventory turns matter because they show whether a company is able to move product faster (good for business if prices remain at profitable levels) or if products are moving slower (bad for business if this is an ongoing trend).
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If it grows slower than 5 percent per year, it should fire up the printing presses.
The NAND type could contain more than double the amount of information and be slower if used like a floppy disk or hard drive.
Regardless of the motivations, de la Fuente was critical of the move, arguing that the government should let monetary policy work, even if it means slower growth.
The world still needs energy, argues Steve Sawyer, the head of the Global Wind Energy Council, an industry group, and even if banks are slower to lend, utilities can often afford to pay for new generation out of their own revenues.
And if the economy grows slower than we expect, interest rates will stay depressed.
We will have slower results if the message we deliver on the soccer field is not reinforced at home.
They are not so good if they result from slower than anticipated sales.
Even if they're slower, at least the Yankees are running smart.
According to two researchers at the University of Kansas, the heart rates of people tested recovering from stress were 7% slower, if they gripped a pair of chopsticks in their teeth in such a way as to force themselves to smile.
But that will make economic growth a bit slower, especially if extra federal borrowing again raises long-term rates.
Since private-equity returns still top most other investments, money is expected to continue to flow to buyout pros, even if it comes at a slower pace.
So even though the Central Banker, Alexandre Tombini, has said that he will throw the kitchen sink at inflation if he has to, slower growth is not going to prove popular.
Even so, says Ms Matsui, if prices merely fall at a slower rate, this could have a profound effect on confidence and expectations.
Of course from those stratospheric heights, the pace of further spending increases may seem slower, just like if Jack in the Beanstalk and the Jolly Green Giant both eat the same feast, the percentage weight gain for the Giant will be so much smaller than for Jack.
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If that means lower growth and a slower decision-making process, so be it.
If anything, large advertisers should be slower to adopt mobile ads compared to the Internet because it has yet to prove its worth to any significant degree.
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If they understood, they'd be slower to toss the resume of an unemployed person.
Even if policy were right, small farms are slower than large ones to adopt better crops and farming methods.
For Francois Hollande, it means looser fiscal and monetary policies, and a slower pace of structural reform (if any).
Hollande would balance the budget more slower than Sarkozy (by 2017 instead if 2016), and would focus more on tax rises to do it.
Firstly, he declared, the government will allow "the automatic stabilisers" to operate - in other words the government won't cut spending even more or tax more if borrowing goes up because the economy is growing slower than hoped.
This could result in stiffer competition, especially if demand for IT products and services weakens due to slower economic activity.
Holding on to a slightly slower iPhone might not be much of an issue if you primarily use it for common tasks -- calls and texts, e-mailing, Twitter and Facebook, reading, even watching movies.
However, if the total disk storage systems market grows at a much slower rate due to lower demand for disk storage, there could be significant downside to our estimate for data storage firms like EMC and NetApp.
Thus, if the FDA furloughs a few dozen reviewers, that necessarily means slower evaluations and fewer life-saving drugs and medical devices coming to market in a timely way.
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It did this functionally if not impressively quickly using Microsoft's Remote Display Protocol over the slower Wi-Fi networks available at the time.
And, if this two-thirds segment of our economy is growing at a slower rate, what should we expect from the economy as a whole?
How will the above equation change if Wall Street economists cut back on EPS estimates due to forecasts for slower economic growth in the quarters ahead?
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