Retail sales, the relative bright spot, are simply holding their ground.
There is some question whether the Rangers are genuinely interested in the 28-year-old Lindros, or if they are simply holding out the possibility to drive down Jagr's price.
One workable theory is that older, more conservative cohorts polled on political views today came of age during a period of political conservatism: they are simply holding on to a position, not shifting it.
Senators who serve more than three or four decades usually cease being productive well before the halfway mark, and by the end are simply holding the chair until they expire and their state can turn to someone else a few generations younger.
Yun said many first-time buyers are simply holding off.
As it sits right now, the Android ports are simply holding seats for big apps.
People are simply holding on to tablets for longer, and new models are just not compelling enough to get consumers to buy them instead of the big-screened phones hitting the market.
Gartner's explanation is a slowdown in demand from Asia-Pacific, because of a lack of compelling new devices getting launched in the period: users are simply holding out until something better comes along.
Or will it insist, as Jobs already has, that users are simply holding their phones wrong?
