Sentence examples for downturn about from inspiring English sources

Until the downturn, about 88percentt of companies provided some sort of match — typically, half of what the employee put in, to a maximum of 3percentt of salary — according to the benefits consulting firm Hewitt Associates, of Lincolnshire, Ill.

But during this downturn, about 8percentt of companies have eliminated that matching contribution.

When it comes to how to best reverse an economic downturn, about the only thing you might find politicians agreeing on is the importance of supporting small businesses.

But I think we'll have different advice for one another once we've come through this downturn, about how we had to change to survive.

New issue prices get pegged to the current value of publicly traded companies, which makes doing an offering during a downturn about as promising as selling a Miami condo during a hurricane.

But that was not the immediate concern of the thousands who had flocked to Mezhyhirya in the city's suburbs to witness the style in which the President and his family had become accustomed to living at the same time as they had struggled with an economic downturn brought about by political instability.

"The good and bad news on these cycles is that the downturn is about equal to the upturn that came before," he says.

Companies, particularly in sickly industries such as construction and property, have been more concerned about surviving Japan's long economic downturn than about ethical guidelines.

As the housing market shows signs of possibly entering another downturn, worries about foreclosure are growing.

Jerry Pickett's business hit a downturn at about the same time.

But now there are fears the Chinese economic downturn is about to impose an ice age chill on the sector.