In general, the real estate sector has been slow to adopt high-tech options.

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Reconciliation of massive high-tech investment and relatively slow productivity growth in service industries remains an important task for proponents of the new-economy position.

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When the economy turns down, businesses and consumers slow spending on hardware, software and other tech goods.

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The economic slowdown, the crash in tech shares and the demise of dotcoms will clearly slow the pace of Internet developments for awhile.

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If (when) the tech bubble bursts, this will cause spending to slow sharply as firms and households struggle to reduce their heavy debt burdens.

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Steel in her eyes, she speaks of more conflict to come, of a great tech reckoning that will unleash cataclysmic consolidation in a Slow New World.

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In a note to investors last Thursday, Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi argued that HP's strong performance over the past year coupled with a "softer tech spending environment" will force HP's revenue growth to slow down over the coming quarters.

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Progress, Reuters news agency notes, has been slow on two trademarks of Mr Medvedev's modernisation drive: efforts to create a high-tech innovation incubator at Skolkovo, outside Moscow, and to turn the capital into a global financial centre.

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Walter Huffman, the Dean of Texas Tech School of Law and a former Army judge advocate general, says the wheels of military justice move slow, but they do grind on.

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