" While the economic slowdown has created a difficult business environment, we are encouraged by brisk activity from new and existing propeller fleet operators placing almost 200 orders for 2009 production aircraft ," Pelton stated.

In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction, a general slowdown in economic activity.

The 1980s and 1990s saw a slowdown of Bécaud's activity, releasing various compilations and touring occasionally.

The global economic crisis hit the Lesotho economy hard through loss of textile exports and jobs in the sector due largely to the economic slowdown in the United States which is a major export destination, reduced diamond mining and exports, including weak prices for diamonds ; drop in SACU revenues due to the economic slowdown in the South African economy, and reduction in worker remittances due to weakening of the South African economy and contraction of the mining sector and related job losses in South Africa.

The acceleration is usually negative, as it causes a gradual slowing and recession of a satellite in a prograde orbit away from the primary, and a corresponding slowdown of the primary's rotation.

However, the slowdown of the Earth's rotation is not occurring fast enough for the rotation to lengthen to a month before other effects make this irrelevant: About 2. 1 billion years from now, the continual increase of the Sun's radiation will cause the Earth's oceans to vaporize, removing the bulk of the tidal friction and acceleration.

* By the end of the decade, world population is projected to surpass 8 billion people, half a billion more than 2020, representing a slowdown in growth from the ' 10s, which are expected to increase the population by 700 million.

The city is characterized by rapid aging and a long history of demographic decline, that has shown a partial slowdown in the last decade.

But it will have to overcome some difficulties: French economy faces a short-term slowdown ; the government tries to balance tertiary sector employment in the whole region again, because La Défense today concentrates a major part of those jobs ; and traffic is already saturated in the district, while it would need huge investments to extend transport infrastructures.

Doing so results in both the possibility of failure to form a suitable force, and a general slowdown in procurement once the operation is in the field.

Just as a Universal Turing machine can simulate any other Turing machine efficiently, so the universal quantum computer is able to simulate any other quantum computer with at most a polynomial slowdown.

Due to the economic slowdown, the office space is not needed, and the " twin towers " plan has been shelved until the market picks up.

Their slowdown rate depends on how much computer power their meager assets can afford, as computer power is traded on a global exchange and goes to the highest bidder at any point in time.

In the latter time frame, Durham is suspected to be a con artist of some type, who travels around the world visiting rich Copies and offering them prime real estate in some sort of advanced supercomputer which, according to his pitch, will never be shut down and will be powerful enough to support any number of Copies in VR environments of their own designing at no slowdown whatsoever, no matter how preposterously opulent those environments might be.

The median-of-3 pivot selection algorithm takes the median of the first, middle, and last elements of the list ; however, even though this performs well on many real-world inputs, it is still possible to contrive a median-of-3 killer list that will cause dramatic slowdown of a quicksort based on this pivot selection technique.

It is now in a slowdown phase.

Although several possible cause for the slowdown have been proposed there is no consensus.

However, the IR form is much more suitable for instrumentation than the original, which makes it easier to write tools, and for most projects, a slowdown of this order is not a big problem during debugging.

* The general trend is, however, a slowdown in population growth compared to gains of twenty to fifty years, this tends to confirm a gradual stabilization of the overall population.

This slowdown is worst when running on host machines with deep execution pipelines, such as current x86 chips.

Among the " qualifying events " listed in the statute are loss of benefits coverage due to ( 1 ) the death of the covered employee ; ( 2 ) an employee loses eligibility for coverage due to voluntary or involuntary termination or a reduction in hours as a result of resignation, discharge ( except for " gross misconduct "), layoff, strike or lockout, medical leave, or slowdown in business operations ; ( 3 ) divorce or legal separation that terminates the ex-spouse's eligibility for benefits ; or ( 4 ) a dependent child reaching the age at which he or she is no longer covered.

Disinflation is a decrease in the rate of inflation – a slowdown in the rate of increase of the general price level of goods and services in a nation's gross domestic product over time.

However, a closer look at the figures shows that — at present — the United States is still in the linear region of the transition, with little sign of a slowdown yet.

Thaksin's supporters argue that the economic slowdown is largely a result of the Great Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004 and rising oil prices and inflation.

Moderators will also read questions at a quick pace to counteract slowdown.

There are also optimizations to prevent boot slowdown due to BIOS POST operations.

Many mills ’ fiber costs have also been affected during the U. S. housing market slowdown of 2007 – 8 by the shutdown of many sawmills, particularly in Canada, since the virgin fiber used by mills generally comes from nearby sawmills in the form of wood chips produced as a residual product of the saw milling process.

BEA's insistence on building the Trident smaller with less powerful engines and a lower fuel capacity than originally proposed was also a manifestation of the cautious attitude of the airline's senior management against a backdrop of a reduction in its profit margin and slowdown in its growth rate.

While it would crack the Top 40, it would also signal the beginning of a slowdown in Sedaka's music sales and radio play not unlike what he experienced in 1964 when The Beatles and the " British Invasion " arrived.

( However, this also results in a slowdown of the program's development.

Research is also being undertaken to develop switchgrass as a pellet fuel because of lack of surplus wood residues in eastern Canada, as a slowdown in the forest products industry in 2009 is now resulting in wood pellet shortages throughout Eastern North America.

They can also be turned into sprites if the whole screen is needed, but this can cause slowdown.

" Both reviews noted the presence of some graphical slowdown, but also stated that it was a rare occurrence and only a minor issue.

At that time, the Trump Tower's design was also scaled back and the height was reduced, not because of the demise of the competing Sapphire Tower, but rather the developers needed to allow the project to remain viable in the face of the real estate market slowdown.

Problems within National's management as well as pressure from the deepening Great Depression led to a production slowdown at National, and this ultimately resulted in part of the company's fractured management structure organizing support for George Beauchamp's newest project: the development of a fully electric guitar.

With the slowdown in the population growth rate and a rise in the median age ( from 18. 7 years to 21. 8 years between 1960 and 1980 ), the age structure of the population has begun to resemble the columnar pattern typical of developed countries, rather than the pyramidal pattern found in most parts of the Third World.

In 2011, international travel demand continued to recover from the losses resulting from the late-2000s recession, where tourism suffered a strong slowdown from the second half of 2008 through the end of 2009.

Even without this, the slowdown to a month-long day would still not have been completed by 4. 5 billion years from now when the Sun will evolve into a red giant and likely destroy both the Earth and Moon.

The forced contraction of the money supply caused by people removing funds from the banking system during the bank panics resulted in deflation ; and even as nominal interest rates dropped, inflation-adjusted real interest rates remained high, rewarding those that held onto money instead of spending it, causing a further slowdown in the economy.

This slowdown gave the French time to bring up 90, 000 men and of ammunition from the railhead at Bar-le-Duc to Verdun.

The slowdown was caused by the collapse of numerous routers under the burden of extremely high bombardment traffic from infected servers.

Aircraft movements have gone down in the last two years, from a height of 158, 456 movements in 2009 to 79, 026 in 2011, mostly due to a slowdown of activities at the Moncton Flight College.

The GDP figures for the third and fourth quarters showed a slowdown from 3. 5 % to 1. 2 % growth.

MIMAROPA experienced a big slowdown in 2006, posting a decelerated growth of 2. 3 % from a 6. 4 % increase in 2005.

In one study VMware claims a slowdown over native ranging from 0 – 6 percent for the VMware ESX Server.

While the state faced an economic slowdown and steep budget cuts, Gibbons faced criticism from officials for spending less time at his office.

* Early December-The economy shows signs of a rapid slowdown as inflation strikes a 20-year low of 2. 27 % at the beginning of the month, falling from a 10-year high of 8. 57 % in February.

* Donald Morris in The Washing of the Spears argues that the men, fighting too far from the camp, ran out of ammunition, starting first with Durnford's men who were holding the right flank and who had been in action longer, which precipitated a slowdown in the rate of fire against the Zulus.

The 2011 joint editorial edition, aside from its calls for a denuclearized Korea and for a slowdown of tensions between the two Koreas, has for the first time, mentioned the rising light industries of the DPRK, given as a reason for an upcoming upsurge in the national economy in the new year and for the achievement of the Kangsong Taeguk national mission.

If we made m modifications, then each access operation has O ( logm ) slowdown resulting from the cost of finding the nearest modification in the array.