Sentences with phrase «by slowing its expansion»

Cash Store aims to increase its profitability by slowing its expansion, except in the U.K., where its stores» profit margins are high.

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In the meantime, Target has been rolling out a sophisticated branding operation here honed by 50 years of slow, steady and massively successful expansion in the U.S.. From a family - owned Minneapolis department store, Target has grown into a discount retailing force rivalled (and still consistently dominated) only by Walmart, which posted US$ 264 billion in U.S. sales last year.

Still, if growth comes in at 7 percent this year, it would be the slowest expansion since 1990, when China was sanctioned by many countries after the Tiananmen crackdown.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

But sources said he was not happy with the changes and the slow pace of development of its products that came after more ambitious promises for expansion of the concept by Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

An estimated three - per - cent expansion overall in 2017 — driven by an out - sized first - half growth spurt of more than four per cent — will likely be followed by slower output of 2.1 per cent next year.

Over the next two decades, the economic expansion continued — the U.S. economy grew by almost 60 % — yet the number of listed companies fell by 3,650 as delistings increased and new listings slowed dramatically:

This period might be better regarded as representing a pause in the late 1970s recovery, rather than the starting point of another cycle; [1] the 1980s expansion was also characterised by a mid-cycle slowing.

Slow expansion with robust evaluation is the name of the game — and by 2011 there will be FNP teams in 70 areas.

New Jersey's new governor will consider changes to the state's charter school law, potentially slowing the expansion of controversial, yet in - demand schools championed by former Gov. Chris Christie.

If correct, the implication was shocking: Instead of the gradually slowing cosmic expansion predicted by cosmologists, the universe was speeding up.

By contrast, if the universe contained less material than this critical value, the expansion, though slowing, would never stop; if especially dramatic, acceleration could sunder the universe in a Big Rip.

But the expansion of offshore wind has been slowed by grid problems.

After Hubble found evidence that the universe is expanding, astronomers expected that the attractive force of gravity would continuously slow down the expansion and that by measuring that rate of slowing they could determine the shape and fate of the universe.

If the expansion is slowing down, the velocity of a distant galaxy would be relatively greater than the velocity predicted by Hubble's law.

The explosions revealed a universe expanding at an ever - faster rate, a finding at odds with previous expectations that the expansion of the cosmos should be slowing down, braked by the collective gravitational pull of all the matter out there.

Observations show that the universe is in fact flat (there is just enough matter to slow its expansion but not to halt it), has zero total energy and underwent rapid inflation, or expansion, soon after the big bang, as described by inflationary cosmology.

Just about everyone had expected that the cosmic expansion, which started with the Big Bang, must be gradually slowing down, braked by the collective gravitational pull of all the galaxies and other matter out there.

«In a universe which is dominated by matter, one would expect gravity eventually should make the expansion slow down.

Dark energy is needed to explain why the cosmic expansion in not slowing down; dark matter is invoked to resolve why galaxies are rotating too fast to be bound by gravity due to visible matter; and cosmic inflation is needed to explain

Dark energy is needed to explain why the cosmic expansion in not slowing down; dark matter is invoked to resolve why galaxies are rotating too fast to be bound by gravity due to visible matter; and cosmic inflation is needed to explain [the horizon problem — See Figure 225 on page 455.]

Had the universe been slightly denser by one part in 1062, the expansion would have slowed and collapsed back on itself in a «big crunch» after 13.7 billion years (today's age of the universe according to the big bang theory).60 Had the universe been slightly less dense by one part in 1062, «the universe would have expanded «so quickly and become so sparse it would soon seem essentially empty, and gravity would not be strong enough by comparison to cause matter to collapse and form galaxies.61 The stretching explanation does not have this problem.

Two teams of astronomers — the High - z Supernova Search Team, led by Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt, and the Supernova Cosmology Project, led by Saul Perlmutter — publish findings that, instead of slowing down, the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

This «waist» slows down the expansion of material ejected by the doomed object.

The scientists trained the mighty Keck telescopes at known supernovae and used their findings to determine that the expansion of the Universe was not slowing down, as was expected, but in fact was speeding up — driven by a mysterious repelling force now called Dark Energy.

But by 1980, the report states, the pace of the expansion of special - education programs and services «slowed dramatically,» as the school systems «struggled to maintain the status quo with fewer financial resources.»

This is done by taking slow and controlled breaths from the diaphragm while maintaining awareness of the expansion and contraction of

As a result of the guarding of the breed by the Maltese, very few Pharaoh Hound's can be located outside of the country, but as time goes on breeders around the world have begun to establish breeding programs from the few dogs outside of Malta providing a slow expansion of the breed.

This had a lot of obvious upsides: By waiting a few expansions, the game could be slowed down as those older, more powerful cards disappeared from the sets.

The IPCC projections of sea level rise are based largely on the slow, steady and inexorable thermal expansion of the oceans (as water heats, its volume increases) with some additional contributions from the melting of mountain glaciers (almost all of which are expected to be gone by mid century).

This intensification of winds initially triggers a rapid cooling of the sea surface and expansion of sea ice, but this is followed by a slow process of warming and sea ice contraction.

Via kind tipster Jamie Woolley and an article on Greenpeace More on Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70 % Amazon Deforestation Grows in August, Brazil Says Could Stop in 2015 Amazon Condoms To Preserve Forests and Reduce Imports in Brazil Brazil to Develop Satellite to Monitor Deforestation, Urban Expansion Brazilian Banks, Forbidden to Give Loans to Illegal Loggers

When I wrote about Tesla's rapid expansion of its supercharger network, I was equally surprised by the extent of its less publicly touted network of «destination chargers» — slower, «Level 2» chargers that it is distributing to hotels, malls, restaurants and other locations so folks can charge while they shop / eat / sleep, and thus relieve some pressure from the faster superchargers which folks use for longer distance road tripping.

But to slow sea level increases — which are caused primarily by melting glaciers and the expansion of warming oceans — he said the rate of global temperature increase must be slowed.

Though some progress has been made in reversing the losses in jobs and income sustained during the recession, the pace of expansion has been frustratingly slow and the unemployment rate remains very high by historical standards.

The signs of a slowing economy were quickly noted by investors, already suspicious of this decade's prolonged period of economic expansion.

«Although there are some signs that payroll expansion among professional / business services is slowing, Austin's tech sector is more than making up for the reduced demand,» according to a fourth quarter report by commercial real estate services firm Savills Studley.