One major drag is that its cost of producing polysilicon is well below the spot price.
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And then, after the housing bust and high-tech job losses, it became a major drag on growth.
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The XLF was a major drag on the market in 2011 as it lost 18.5% while the SPY was pretty much unchanged.
The obvious star of the quarter was strength out of the HDFS unit which had been a major drag on results as the recession deepened.
Lack of access to water and sanitation is a major drag on economic growth and costs countries in sub-Saharan Africa around 5% of their GDP each year.
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CIOs, like most individuals, may become more risk averse as they get settled in the role or achieve significant success (or drag) in the major transformational endeavors they launch.
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Infineon Raceway, which spans 1, 600 acres in Sonoma County, attracts hundreds of thousands of fans a year to major races from NASCAR and IndyCar to Drag Racing and the American Motorcycle Association (AMA)series.
Still, as Perkins tells it, the OT lawsuit was quickly settled, whereas analogous claims today drag on for years and have become a major constraint on whole industries, including smart phones, eReaders, and their newer relatives, the tablets.
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"A major concern for us is that the governor is going to drag his feet as much as possible, " said Emily Harris, statewide coordinator for Californians United for a Responsible Budget, a coalition seeking to lower the prison population.
The VAT collects taxes efficiently, is difficult to evade, is broad-based, exerts less of a drag on economic growth, and, by the way, is the major source of revenue in Europe.
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Mayor Jerremiah Healy said the project was a major victory in efforts to create jobs on the former industrial sites that have been a drag on the city's economic development.
As much as it's important to have every component of a PC stuck together in a laptop, that same monolithic strategy is a major liability for server clusters: if one part breaks or grows obsolete, it can drag down everything else.
This may be as low as Brazil goes barring any major systematic eruption in global stock markets, such as a US downgrade or debt default, which will drag everything down regardless of the fundamentals.
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