But the slowdown could be more severe if security worsens, if Afghans cannot maintain their new infrastructure or if the government fails to garner royalties from contracts for the country's mineral wealth.
Compared with traditional short-range communications, the wearable devices confront more severe system vulnerabilities and security threats during interactions.
Treasury Secretary John W. Snow said Medicare's financial problems were more severe than those of Social Security because of "steady large increases in underlying health care costs".
Like his boss, Mr. Lew is part of an emerging strain of pragmatic liberals who believe Democrats must compromise with Republicans to reduce long-term deficits, or ultimately the mounting debt could force far more severe cuts in Medicare, Social Security and other programs benefiting low- and middle-income Americans.
In recent years, with the rapid development of network technology, the formation of a high concentration of data stored in the network environment, the simplified data management, improve operational efficiency, reduce the cost of investment at the same time, the data security is experiencing more severe test.
Knowingly peddling fraudulent securities is a straightforward act of securities fraud, one made all the more severe by the fact that WaMu never told its investors it had sold them securities full of fraudulent loans.
Some 6.3 million households containing over 14 million people had "very low food security" last year -- a more severe form of food insecurity in which household members have to take steps such as skipping meals because they lack resources.
National Medical's former chief executive, Constantine Hampers, and former chief financial officer, A. Miles Nogelo, agreed to a cease-and-desist order, opening them to more severe punishment for any future violation of securities laws.
Climate-related risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, and economic growth are also projected to be more severe at the higher temperature rise.
There is, it says, "no doubt that climate change will affect the agriculture sectors and food security and that its negative impact will become more severe as it accelerates.
