Candida and I already mentioned the modest growth ambitions of most new business owners.
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By all accounts, this modest growth scenario will keep the profit engine humming for corporate America.
It has settled into a period of modest growth with low inflation, unheard of in decades.
Modest growth, declining incomes and a level of national debt that undermine our long-term prospects.
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"I suspect the modest growth of the urban cores is a short-term phenomenon, " Mr. Johnson said.
City analysts have often nagged Lord Simpson to sell these businesses, because they offer only modest growth prospects.
Second, the best guess is still that the UK will record very modest growth in the first quarter.
Loan demand is expanding and it seems that the company has returned to a period of modest growth.
Thus, our revenue in 2010 was up 13 percent over 2009, and we anticipate modest growth again this year.
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It said the acquisition of Express Diaries helped drive sales in a sector that had otherwise seen modest growth.
While there has been modest growth of IT jobs, cloud-sector jobs are increasing far more swiftly, the report states.
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In July the fund had predicted a return to modest growth in 2012.
Intel looks to grow its revenues aided by expected growth in PC shipments and modest growth in average selling prices.
It said economic contraction in South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore will offset modest growth in China and India.
Bart Bartolozzi, a senior product manager at IPC, said turrets have seen a steady, modest growth of 2-3 percent per year.
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Year after year you stood before them at the annual meeting and cut a deal, promising them modest growth and a steady dividend check.
The U.S. economy is adding jobs, which is a good sign, just not fast enough to produce anything better than modest growth.
In July, the industry projected modest growth for the remainder of 2012.
Cost pressures from fuel, transport and food, plus only modest growth in employment, are expected to slow that to 0.7% next year.
Indeed, some expect it to shrink in the last three months of 2012 - though the average forecast is for modest growth.
Looking ahead toward 2013, Meader said he looks for stability and perhaps modest growth for jewelry demand and a rebound in industrial buying.
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Looking ahead, chief executive John Rishton said he expected "modest growth in underlying revenue and good growth in underlying profit" in 2013.
Even such relatively modest growth expectations are an awful lot to expect from a company without a recent record of consistent economic profitability.
While largely unsuccessful in alleviating Syria's massive poverty, these reforms did enable the country a modest growth rate of around 2.5% per year.
At the same time it forecast growth in Asia would be moderate, supported by resilient domestic demand and a modest growth in external demand.
Mr Coucher said there were signs of stabilisation in the Irish economy, with modest growth in economic output and a levelling off of unemployment.
While I believe the U.S. remains poised for modest growth in 2013 (assuming no policymaker-induced calamities), much of the emerging world is better positioned.
As recently as early August, the Fed had held steady on rates, predicting modest growth for the economy and saying inflation remained its chief concern.
The major economies of Germany and France did show modest growth in the third quarter, which did mitigate the overall contraction in the Euro zone.
The report, an update to a more optimistic survey that showed modest growth in IT services spending, captures anecdotal evidence of IT services companies suffering in the credit crunch.
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