Maybe the directors believed this could recharge things after a slow fall from 811 in 2004.
Satellite and space expert Dr Stuart Eves stressed the large uncertainties involved in tracking the "decay" of satellite orbits (their slow fall back into the Earth's atmosphere).
More likely is a slow steady fall with bumps along the way as favorable or unfavorable events materialize.
The OFT said there was very little evidence that petrol and diesel prices rise quickly when oil prices go up, but are slow to fall when prices drop.
It said there was very little evidence that petrol and diesel prices rise quickly when oil prices go up, but are slow to fall when prices drop.
Since the beginning of the year, investors have sliced the company's stock price nearly in half over fears that spending on online ads will slow or fall as the credit crunch freezes wallets.
Once the parachute opens you fall slow enough to take in the landscape, preferably at sunset or in a beautiful spot like the fiordlands or at the Franz Josef glacier.
This contains a study of the past two downturns in American retailing, in 1990-91 and 2000-01, which found that retail revenues were quick to fall and slow to recover, even once the economy started to pick up.
But, the consequences of continued slow growth and high unemployment fall most heavily on the least skilled and those who lose their job or the opportunity for a better life, to say nothing of the broad middle class that has suffered a historic decline in median income during the past four years.
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In the short term, though, prices are slow to adjust, interest rates fall, and so does the currency.
They conclude that, although house-price inflation is likely to slow, prices will not actually fall, so there is no need for consumers to retrench.
These conditions will impact North America's climate this fall and will be slow to change, says oceanographer Dr. William Patzert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
To combat potential traffic jams, Verizon added language Thursday to its contract terms saying it may slow down connections for customers that fall in the top 5% of bandwidth use.
When the russet sauce is heated through and the flavors have begun to meld, the poultry is returned to the pan to braise, low and slow, until the meat is fall-off-the-bone tender.
For China's banks the lessons lie mainly in the rapid fall, rather than the slow rise.
As the full consequences of the stockmarket's slump feeds through, income taxes, which account for more than half of some states' revenues, will slow further next year and could even fall.
The SEC has already proposed a number of changes designed to address their growing influence, including extra restrictions on broker-dealers that provide direct market access to high frequency traders, a trader tracking system for large traders, circuit breakers that would slow trading in individual stocks if they fall more than 10%, and new rules for off-exchange trading venues.
Daimler also said the market for trucks would fall 5% due to the slow economy.
Careful positioning of the sail should slow the probe down, causing it to fall towards the sun.
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The fall in commodity prices will certainly slow things down.
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Even if house prices merely flatten off rather than fall, consumer borrowing and spending could slow sharply as people feel constrained to put more money aside.
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But, it argues, these fall foul of both an obstructive bureaucracy and the slow and corruption-prone legal procedure for the compulsory purchase of land or buildings.
There are worrying signs that aid to the sector is likely to slow even further as 2015 approaches, reflecting the 3% fall in total aid to development from 2010-2011.
And while the unemployment rate has fallen, it has done so at a painfully slow rate, and is expected by the Fed to remain fall to between 6.7% to 7.6% only by 2014, well above the 5.2% to 6% range they consider normal.
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If interest rates, and the currency they undergird, are to fall as Ms Rousseff wants, she will have to slow the hectic increase in federal spending.
The bistro offers fall-off-the-fork-tender beef cheeks that have been slow-cooked for five hours.
And the recent rises do not even make up for the fall in rates that occurred after 1995, when growth in Asian exports began to slow.
In his view, which has some prominent supporters, it is not a lack of supply, but a fall in real wages which has helped maintain employment and profits in an environment of slow demand.
Saying Web browsers on other networks are "painfully slow, " Mattrick announced that an integrated version of Internet Explorer will be coming to the Xbox this fall.
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