It was hurt both by general worries over whether academic laboratories will tighten their belts and questions over how quick the uptake of its new DNA sequencer is.
If that's the case it could save the dozens of small coal plants that now look sure to close as clean air rules tighten over the next several years.
One thing is clear in surveying the new vehicles unveiled at the Paris Motor Show: automakers are not shying away from high performance, even as governments the world over continue to tighten fuel economy and emissions standards.
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We expect the copper market to tighten substantially over H2 and for prices to hit new highs later in the year.
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At the same time, Mr Abbas has felt obliged to tighten his control over dissenters, including his prime minister, Salam Fayyad, a political independent, by cajoling him into shuffling his cabinet.
Since his campaign, Morales vowed to tighten state control over this resource and the mining industries and as of May 1, 2006, he signed a decree stating that all natural gas reserves were to be nationalized.
However, as Ken Hersh the CEO of NGP Energy Capital suggests, the market is in the process of realigning, as there has been a twenty percent correction in rig count (with more to go), which will tighten supply figures over the next 18-24 months.
Government officials have taken numerous steps to tighten controls on immigration over the past two years, amid complaints that foreigners were straining the country's infrastructure and driving costs higher.
They could well benefit from what every private business has done over the last three years: Tighten the belt, get more with less, learn that you can run a good organization with fewer people, pay more attention to detail, and expect more from everyone.
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If inflation really does spike, financial markets would fall apart: already-expensive equities would have to compete with higher interest rates and worries that America's over-stretched consumers would have to tighten their (substantial) belts.
Last year, the academy formed a committee to tighten the rules after the campaigns spilled over into personal attacks between studios.
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Mr. Gulliver, soon after taking over HSBC's CEO post in 2011, announced efforts to tighten the bank's money-laundering programs.
Disagreements between agencies over the dangers lurking in commercial property led to a delay in urging banks to tighten standards.
Public anger over the incident hastened the passing of a food-safety law in 2009 which was intended to tighten standards, improve supervision and impose tougher penalties on violators.
The currencies that are likely to benefit from that over the next few years are those which are growing relatively quickly and where monetary policy needs to tighten in light of increasing inflationary pressure.
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The recent spate of accidents in the garment trade, especially in Bangladesh, where in addition to the building collapse more than 100 have also died in factory fires over the past year has led labor unions and worker-safety groups to press Western retailers to tighten oversight of their supply chains.
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