Sentences with phrase «general lack of growth»

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These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Slow growth has also contributed to the general lack of accumulating excesses (debt, inflation and inventories) that make an expansion vulnerable to recession.

This is not to say that corruption and similar do not increase general inefficiency and can contribute to the lack of growth by disincentivizing investments.

A downturn in the global economy, a lack of venture capital flowing in to start - up and expansion - phase companies, and the general tightening of corporate belts has led to poor job growth in the biotech and pharma industries.

When it happens in the skin, the AGE's attach to the protein Collagen; stiffness and lack of blood flow, and clumps of debris cause: wrinkles, inflammation, inhibited skin cell growth, liver spots, and general «accelerated aging».

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

Still, that's very slow growth — with the question being whether we should consider this strong, oak - like slow growth, or just a general lack of interest in the product.

The planet of Koppai is facing an inevitable doomsday due to a booming population growth, and a «general lack of planning» that resulted in the depletion of most food resources.

The conventional economic wisdom is that financial speculation, mostly in real estate combined with a decade of overspending and a lack of savings in general, led to a bubble in economic growth (e.g. GDP) that then popped resulting in a recession.

The reason for overlaying that with caution is a number of more complex factors: the general election and the uncertainty that may result, the relative lack of growth in the eurozone and factors of uncertainty over Russia.

«Where it breaks down is that there is a lack of understanding about what is in the lease by employees,» says Julie Jones, a vice president of management at Chicago - based General Growth Properties Inc..