The most important factor slowing the out-migration of Californians in 2008 to 2011 was that home prices fell more in California than in the U.S. overall, making California more affordable relative to the rest of the country than during the housing bubble.
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It singled out slowing growth in China and India, two of the biggest economies in the region, as the main driver of the revision.
The result could be that "we end up seeing the system slowing down while everybody works out what the new words mean".
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Michael Dicks, an economist at Lehman Brothers, points out that a slowing economy will start to drag earnings growth down next year.
Tobias Seidl at the University of Zurich says that's because nobody thought fast-moving ants were smart enough to bend and stretch their way under low-hanging obstacles without first slowing down to check them out.
For one thing, the pace at which the rich world churns out rubbish has been slowing.
However, he passed the slowing Toyota of Timo Glock accelerating out of the final corner to create F1 history.
Even against a slowing world economy, Italy stands out for its dim prospects.
The Obama administration has become so concerned about the slowing pace of new drugs coming out of the pharmaceutical industry that officials have decided to start a billion-dollar government drug development center to help create medicines.
Growth is slowing, because of the fall-out from the financial turmoil and the weakening American economy.
Joe Girardi was angry enough to suggest baseball expand replay after a blown call by umpire Jeff Nelson cost his Yankees a crucial out in the 2012 ALCS. But Girardi still took 14.1 seconds to reach second base to argue slowing to a walk after initially sprinting out of the dugout.
Joe Girardi was angry enough to suggest baseball expand replay after a blown call by umpire Jeff Nelson cost his Yankees a crucial out in the 2012 ALCS. But Girardi still took 14.1 seconds to arrive at second base to argue slowing to a walk after initially sprinting out of the dugout.
Though it's difficult to predict exactly how the year will pan out, weak job growth, a slowing economy and troubled housing markets all point to signs of an economic recession.
Figures out this week show that the recovery is slowing, with growth of just 3.2% at an annual rate in the second quarter, following 4.6% in the first quarter.
Less than two weeks after it reported a 2 cent per share quarterly loss, Apple Computer today rolled out three big guns to fight back against slowing sales: new computers, new flat-panel displays and lower prices.
The government had little success slowing the rise in prices until late February when it laid out its harshest set of actions, doubling the stamp duty on most transactions to as high as 8.5%, among other measures.
The basic concept is the same as that underpinning the "white roads" idea -- the development of a technology that can reflect a proportion of the sun's radiation away from the earth's surface and back out into space, thereby cooling the atmosphere and slowing, or even reversing the damaging effects of global climate change.
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But as Lael laid out before, there are emerging economies that are also slowing down that can take further action.
Skeptics point to a slowing earnings outlook and potential tax and spending headwinds as lawmakers sort out the U.S.'s debt troubles.
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.
Greeks might reasonably hope for a bit more room for manoeuvre on fiscal targets, but squeezing more cash out of the Europeans to cover budgetary shortfalls, or slowing the pace of structural reform, will be much harder.
The foreclosure crisis in Las Vegas, like 20 other cities out of the top 25 worst, is showing signs of slowing down.
Obviously, a maker of passenger cars might be inclined to agree that growth is slowing in China, but that 7.6 percent GDP growth is not out of line with car sales.
In the first place, as Olli Rehn, the EU economics commissioner, pointed out on his new blog last week, the rate of fiscal retrenchment is slowing in Europe.
Year upon year of slowing down the action in their heads, of training their brains to take the emotion out of the multiple thousands of split-second decisions they make every time they get in the car, tends to lend them a languid air when not in action.
But in the long term later retirement counters the trend to slowing labour force growth caused by an ageing population, more years spent in college, and a levelling out of women's participation.
The American Cancer Society's Lichtenfeld says what looks like a slowing in the number of new breakthroughs could eventually translate into many more lives saved--it just turns out that the daily practice of medicine is not as exciting as the eureka moments.
Barclays Capital said if the data comes out weaker than expected, especially if inflation is higher than anticipated, it could signal further evidence of slowing economic activity and that would weigh on global growth prospects and risky assets.
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Some economists argue plausibly that signs of slowing consumer spending are already apparent: Simon Briscoe, an economist at Nikko Europe, a securities firm, points out that a whole host of economic variables, from car registrations to retail sales, are weaker than they were six months ago.
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