So how do you know if your best supplier or customer is about to hit the skids?
Unfortunately, the lumbering sturgeon proved all too easy to catch, and their U.S. population quickly hit the skids.
Actress Drew Barrymore's nuptials to comic Tom Green hit the skids after five months.
The Surface slate is on the skids in retail, as are Windows 8 computers.
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That makes auto loans easier to get, which greases the skids for more U.S. auto sales.
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According to a spate of recent media reports, Iran's economy is on the skids.
The very next year he fell off the list, and he's been on the skids ever since.
AMD, the perennial second banana to Intel in microprocessors and memory products, is on the skids again.
They grease the skids for clinical trials, too, by assembling networks of doctors and patients who want to participate.
Cheyne Capital's SIV was one of many to hit the skids last summer, when investor appetite for debt all but evaporated.
Because, as any smart investor knows, you buy at the bottom of the market, and Bordeaux recently has hit the skids.
Years ago, Muldoon, tortured in love and with his career in disarray, had been the one on the skids and flailing.
However, it is clear that the likes of Yahoo (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT), and Amazon (AMZN) greased the skids for the tech-heavy NASDAQ.
Former stalwarts like Liz Claiborne and Blockbuster have hit the skids, too.
But the longer it is allowed to wait for that train to arrive, the greater the temptation to grease the skids.
When any company hits the skids like this, its up to leadership to rise above and get employees aligned behind a strong recovery plan.
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Net profit at Malaysia's biggest lottery operator grew by more than 25% over the past year, even as the country's economy hit the skids.
The carnival atmosphere of a Southern Culture on the Skids show owes something to wild-man singer Hasil Adkins, whose releases include 1985's Chicken Walk and the retrospective Poultry in Motion.
Then the rate of adoption hit the skids, slowing to 12.4% growth last year as a result of strong price pressure from Bluetooth devices and an overall slowdown of new phone production.
Goals in each half from Andrea Orlandi and Will Hoskins put the skids under Alan Pardew's men, who have slipped alarmingly down the EPL in recent weeks and have a lengthy injury list.
From here on, though, the drama deflates, and we are left with the grinding, post-traumatic account of a relationship on the skids, set in a London that feels sickly with rain and spent light.
Combined with advances in "solid state" internal storage and quicker broadband speeds that make downloads and streaming less painful, a post-DVD era could grease the skids for Apple and its competitors to make increasingly thin, light and inexpensive computers.
Net interest margin declined to 3.66%, a reflection of the low interest rate environment being orchestrated by the Federal Reserve thanks to its asset purchase programs over the past several years aimed at greasing the skids for an economic recovery.
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Thanks to this approach it stands on firmer ground when the market skids.
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For a clubhouse they loaded the abandoned Tipton train depot on skids and installed it behind the first tee.
The buffet car quickly flips onto its side and skids along, tearing up the track.
In the video, Zuur glides across emerald-coloured waters and skids off boat ramps set specifically for the once-in-a-lifetime ride.
We saw perfectly fine companies, such as Applied Materials, an arms supplier to the Web, suffer share price skids of 40%, even though any chowderhead could tell you that demand for chips is a mortal lock to quadruple over the next five years.
Which is indeed what the police are doing when they take all those pictures, measure tire skids and so on.
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