Some scientists privately admit they were caught by surprise by the slackening pace of warming.
He found that, in the real world, temperatures got too warm too soon during the 1990s; but the slackening pace since had brought the forecast right back on track.
And despite some tentative signs that the economy might be cooling -- most notably a slackening in the pace of job creation last month -- Mr. Greenspan made clear yesterday that he remained as concerned as ever that the economy was running out of workers, leaving it vulnerable to an upward spiral in both wages and prices.
And despite a slackening in the pace of investments and some big rounds for incumbent players in recent months, new startups keep launching to try their hand at building a better mousetrap.
'JESUS' SON' The last third of Alison McLean's adaptation of a book of stories by neo-hipster Denis Johnson meanders, but the hour that precedes it is so packed with intensity and surprise that you may be grateful for a slight slackening of pace.
Manufacturing output, which accounts for more than 75percentt of industrial production, rose 8.3percentt in July, also a slackening from June, when the pace was 12.5percentt.
But then, through circumstances too wild and complicated to explain, Jack and his telepathic dog wind up on a fishing trawler in the mid-Atlantic, and Klass, without slackening the pace an iota, gives the reader a passionate, evocative and morally nuanced introduction to the horrors of factory fishing, complete with an authentic-sounding sea shanty and Gisco's angry denunciation of "Moby-Dick".
AS HIS WORK ON VOYAGER COMES TO A CLOSE, Stone is not slackening his pace; he is either leading or taking part in four other space projects.
And yet Mrs. Bachmann continues to struggle, as measured by fall-offs in polls, and by the latest fund-raising total she reported Saturday — $4.1 million, a considerable slackening of the pace she set after entering the race in June, when in just three weeks $2.2 million poured in.
And, far from slackening the pace of the cuts, Osborne is looking to step them up during the next parliament, if the Conservatives win.
