The company had a sharp slowdown in demand for digital cameras and inkjet printers, lower royalties from patents and unfavorable foreign exchange rates.
Whisper it low, but it may be better to have a sharp slowdown now and then kick-start growth thereafter, than to prop up the economy artificially right now.
In the past two years, India's economy has seen a sharp slowdown and that has had a direct impact on youth unemployment, particularly for graduates chasing white-collar jobs.
Housing had appeared to be bucking weakness in the broader economy, which has experienced a sharp slowdown in job growth and a cooling in manufacturing against the backdrop of fears of tighter fiscal policy in Washington in early 2013 and a lingering debt crisis in Europe.
"Silicon Fen", near Cambridge in Britain, is about as big and successful as any, and it has seen a sharp slowdown in recent years.
Whitbread, the Premier Inn and Costa Coffee operator, has reported a sharp slowdown in sales growth in November as an anticipated pre-Christmas boost failed to materialise.
After some 20 residential projects were in some stage of development, and after a height of about 350,000 visitors, and $131 million spent on personal property sales, there has been a sharp slowdown.
India's election is underway and the economy is an important issue among voters as there has been a sharp slowdown in growth in recent years.
Over the last twenty-six years there has been a sharp slowdown in the growth of income per person in the vast majority of low-and-middle income countries.
Since 1980, there has been a sharp slowdown in economic growth in the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries.
