Consumer spending is sluggish, partly because wages are declining and unemployment has started to inch up.
They would lose little sleep if output growth stays sluggish or unemployment rates inch up.
With inventory levels reduced, demand tends to outweigh the supply, causing prices to inch up.
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But after years of double-digit growth, sales at Creative Memories will inch up only 6% this year.
At first, Opteron helped AMD inch up its share of the server chip market from 4.1% in early 2003 to 6.9% 15 months later.
The sun is rising, helping the temperature inch up to 22 degrees below zero, as the door to the chartered Dash 8 aircraft swings open.
The IEA now expects oil demand to inch up only by 0.9 million barrels per day in 2012, and then 0.8 million barrels in 2013.
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Consumers seem to be turning a shoulder to negative data as well, as reports that attempt to gauge consumer sentiment inch up amid an uncertain atmosphere.
Gannett 's USA Today saw average daily circulation inch up 0.2% to 2, 278, 022, while the Wall Street Journal, the flagship publication of Dow Jones, climbed 0.6% to 2, 062, 312.
FedEx saw its stock inch up 3% after the earnings.
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's New York Post increased average daily circulation 7.6% to 724, 748, maintaining its lead over its arch rival, the Daily News, which saw daily circulation inch up 1.4% to 718, 174.
Weather Service meteorologist Todd Heitkamp in Sioux Falls said that office had reports of ice accumulations from one-quarter of an inch up to nearly half an inch, leading to power outages and widespread tree damage.
And while the amount of coal consumed by American power generators is down about 15% from the 1 billion tons per year average of the 2000s, the EIA expects the domestic coal burn to inch up to 859 million tons in 2013 and 870 million in 2014.
These include My Book 3.5 inch drives with up to 4 TB of storage capacity, My Passport Portable 2.5 inch drives with up to 1 TB of storage capacity, and My DVR Expander which offers additional storage for settop boxes.
But it has built up trust over the years with the consumer that as long as it continues to deliver value, it can afford to inch prices up in certain areas.
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At Big Sur, it climbs up the rough volcanic ranges, carving around cliffs with sheer drops to the thrashing ocean below, and leads on to the silver-grey foreshores of San Simeon, where elephant seals parp and loll, wriggling to inch themselves up the sand as the frothing tide approaches.
And, perhaps most importantly, if you went for a traditional low-riding supercar--such as the Aston Martin Vanquish--instead of the Arnage T, you couldn't put a six-foot-two-inch driver up front and another passenger of equal height in the backseat, because there wouldn't even be a backseat, let alone a huge trunk.
His site reported earlier this week that the new phone would have a 4.99-inch screen, up from the 4.8-inch screen of the current Galaxy S III, and will display full, high-definition video.
Other particulars: they all have 1, 366 x 768 matte displays, with the 17-inch model stepping up to 1, 600 x 900.
The 7-inch screen steps up to 1, 024 x 758 1, 280 x 800 resolution, up from 1, 024 x 600.
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Other particulars: they all have 1, 366 x 768 matte displays (non-touch), with the 17-inch model stepping up to 1, 600 x 900.
The iPhone 5 has a bigger 4-inch screen (up from 3.5-inches), has a 16 x 9 aspect ratio, is a svelte 7.6 millimeters thick and weighs just 112 grams.
If you come home and you inch the thermostat up to 73 degrees a few days in a row, it will learns to turn up the heater to 73 at 5:45 every day on its own.
The 7.9-inch Multi-Touch display delivers the same iPad experience users have come to expect, in a design that has 35 percent more screen real estate than 7-inch tablets and up to an astonishing 67 percent more usable viewing area when browsing the web.
For another, the nearly-eight-inch screen may end up being the sweet-spot for tablet users.
Ad agencies have always lifted up every inch of the kimono, providing multiple examples of spec work.
Screen sizes for some likes now start in the 55 or 60 inch range and go up from there.
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The touchscreen V325 AIO packs all the thinking parts behind a 23-inch display, with up to 10-point touch sensitivity.
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Now, guys usually go up an inch, you know, an inch and a quarter when they put on their sneakers.
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