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Example sentences for: slowdown

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The slowdown in productivity, then, doesn't bode well for those who assumed that the economy could keep growing at 4 percent indefinitely without sparking inflation.
Like the United States then, Japan has some serious long-term problems: a slowdown in productivity growth, an ossified management culture, a troubled financial sector (Stein's article talked at length about the looming problems of the savings and loan industry).
The main effects the paper mentions are a reservations slowdown at Northwest Airlines and travel agencies' difficulties getting credit card authorizations.
But the Dow took it on the chin, perhaps because (if you're feeling cynical) people who invest in Dow stocks are the only people who still worry about things like rising interest rates or perhaps because (if you're feeling Chicago-school rational) the Dow has more stocks in it that will be hit hard by a cyclical slowdown than does the Nasdaq.
This is not a cut, they say, just a slowdown in the rate of growth; the president wanted to cut, too.