Sentence examples for demand was slack from inspiring English sources

Although workers were typically assigned a fixed 40 hour schedule each week, it was not uncommon for them to be sent home during their shift (or even upon arriving) when demand was slack.

Sales also slipped at the automation and control-solutions units, while demand was slack for its control products and services.

Manufacturers' stocks are high and demand is slack.In this section PRICES AND WAGES EMPLOYMENT COMMODITY PRICE INDEX OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS Reprints.

There is no reason why the Uber algorithm can't work in the opposite direction, for example: when demand is slack, fares drop.

The sharp decline in rubber prices — more than 45 percent in two years — appears traceable to a classic boom-and-bust cycle: farms that expanded when demand was high now produce too much rubber when demand is slack.

Or send staff home when demand is slack, as did Hewlett-Packard, a computer giant, over Christmas.In this section No prizes for runners-up A workers' no-fault divorce AA=No-No Survival of the slowest Beware Turks bearing phones Boss class blues Crunch time Lovingly touched by Mao Out of Africa?

And the fact that the domestic demand is still picking up where some of the internationally-exported demand is slacking.

At the same time, the organisation also talked up high-speed internet services to sceptical residents, creating demand where it was slack.

Corus said it was abandoning the deal it had announced in July to acquire Companhia Siderurgica Nacional, known as CSN, because demand for steel was slack and because of adverse developments in Brazil: a flagging economy and the election of a left-wing government that investors find worrisome.

But the pulp mills closed after the sweetheart timber deal was scrapped in 1990, and by 2000 demand was so slack that some timber sales drew no bidders.

The most important challenge facing employers and workers during the Great Recession, and even through the recovery, was slack demand.