The U.S. economy accelerated in the second quarter as consumers ramped up spending and businesses invested more on equipment, but persistent sluggish wage gains cast a dark
shadow over the growth outlook.
Not exact matches
But Gap's
growth in this arena casts a dark
shadow over Vancouver - based Lululemon Athletica, which has become the authority on fashionable yoga gear, and boasted a 28 % increase in sales
over the last fiscal year.
Of the other MINTs: Indonesia is in a stable recovery, but the importance of commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous
growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic
growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a
shadow over the economy.»
His remarks are supplemented by a warning from the
shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, that Cameron is in danger of putting a long - term question mark
over the UK's relations with its largest trading partner at a time when the country is desperate to secure
growth.
EJ McMahon: «(T) he 5 - 4 decision in the case of Harris v. Quinn casts a long, dark
shadow over organized labor's future
growth prospects.»
Labour on the other hand has been all
over the place between the Blaitite rump who largely support Osborne, a
shadow chancellor who never stamped his mark on a credible alternative policy, and a Left whose calls for
growth were ostentatiously ignored.
And yet, for all this positive
growth, the
shadow of the slightly overlapping Toronto fest looms large
over the Italian event: nowhere is this more apparent than in the scheduling of the Venice programme, which is so front - loaded as to induce a faint sense of panic.
That
growth has become a looming
shadow over active managers, who are pressured to beat benchmarks and cut costs.
That is, has human thinking, judging and willing become so egregiously impaired by our idolatry of the artificially designed, manmade «economic colossus» casting a giant
shadow over the Earth, that we can not speak intelligibly about anything else except economic
growth and profits without sounding like blithering idiots?
Over the past two years I have observed and worked with practice groups pursuing lucrative
growth opportunities in tax inversion deals, personalized medicine,
shadow banking, brand and digital governance, drone law, 3D additive manufacturing, stem - cell bio ethics and many other emerging areas.