His reluctance faded amid Oracle's faltering in-house efforts and his own view that the software industry was slowing down and might never reaccelerate.

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Multiple quarters of slowing growth always happen and have never been predictive, with any consistency, of recession.

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What this all means is that demand for higher education has never been greater in this country, and shows no signs of slowing down.

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While the business need seems to have developed overnight, when combined with a slowing economy and an increasingly mobile workforce, the demands on the CIO have never felt more immediate.

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Many are going on to teach in Chinese universities, slowing the brain drain that has long had China sending its smartest students abroad, never to return.

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Besides, the baroness herself ran out of puff after her industrial privatisations: she never seriously tried to prise the welfare state out of public hands, and only just succeeded in slowing the growth of overall state spending.

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