Wal-Mart's guidance for the current quarter and fiscal year 2014 was weaker than expected, "indicating a sluggish start to the year" and "a relatively muted consumer environment," wrote Colin McGranahan, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, in a note to clients.
Texas Instruments is still CSFB's top long-term pick in large-cap semiconductors and the company could outgrow the market in the current "muted upturn" environment.
Such an approach may potentially increase beta-cell mass among type 1 patients in a muted immune environment, in order to protect and sustain both remaining beta cells and newly generated beta cells.
Working primarily with gouache, acrylics, colored pencils, and inks, she envisions her subjects—oftentimes animals and children as expressive forms within muted forest environments, as well as warm, lived-in interiors of homes.
As a result, coping with life in Britain often involves hanging out with other Chinese students meaning that one big hoped-for benefit, exposure to an English-language environment, is muted.
People tend to become aware that they've done damage that can't be undone when their environment sounds muted, but people around them can hear just fine.
But "300," which opens Friday in regular theaters and in Imax, seems to defy the conventions of stiff and airless bluescreen movies in which muted performances belie pretend environments.
He photographed his family and friends in ways that seem rather casual by the standards of his day, but the sepia tranquillity of much of his work depends in part on the long exposure times of early photography and in part on the tamed nature and muted classicism of the French environment.
Cultural characteristics of the human and the environment can be muted while details that specifically project the emotion and experience that is important to the storyline can be rendered fully to stand out.
We believe the demand for structured products will remain muted and the lower bond yield environment makes product structuring relatively difficult.
