PC manufacturers and retailers have been slow to commit to significant price reductions.
At Condé Nast Traveler, advertisers are being slow to commit, and financial services and real estate ads are plummeting, the publisher, Lisa Hughes, said.
Mr. Tullis said that the older people who come into his labs will often be slow to commit to a mouse click.
At the same time, with the economy slowing, the established national advertisers that Yahoo was counting on to replace the dot-com companies have been slow to commit themselves to new spending.
When Greek debt was revealed to be at critical levels, she was slow to commit German taxpayers' money to a bailout fund, and in 2011 she blocked a French and American proposal for coördinated European action.
Wealthy nations have been slow to commit the money necessary for debt relief, and the World Bank has insisted on an intensive review of how third-world countries will use money made available when debt is forgiven.
During the previous two decades, Germany had increasingly resented its position as the paymaster of Europe, and even prior to 2011, it had been slow to commit funds that were greater than those that other large member countries designated to EU ventures.
The vaunted Republican network of high-dollar donors and fund-raisers, for so long a fear factor for Democrats, has been slow to commit itself to the 2012 presidential candidates, contributing to the faltering start of the party's drive to unseat President Obama.
Transactions were slow to commit, always irreversible, and anything but confidential.
Governments were criticised for being slow to commit funds to the previous UN target of $1.5bn for the first six months of this year, the BBC's Nick Childs said.
