Sentence examples for remain slack from inspiring English sources

And while many real estate executives say they think the worst may be over, the outlook is that the market will remain slack through this year.

But none of it addresses the reality of post-election-November 2002, when each day brings news that Osama bin Laden and his minions are alive and hard at work, that the F.B.I.'s counterterrorism efforts remain slack and that the war on Saddam Hussein has started "in everything but name," as ABC News put it on Wednesday night.

In both countries, business investment dropped sharply while domestic demand remained slack.

Remaining slack in the American and Japanese economies is forecast to disappear by the end of next year, but "ample excess supply" will remain in Europe.

While Ingraham chuckled at this last phrase, my jaw remained slack at this topical simile's unique way of evoking visceral disgust while demonstrating multivalent moral idiocy.

Mexico's economic expansion slowed in the fourth quarter as consumer demand remained slack and hurricanes wiped out some bean, sugar and corn crops.

Mr. Dye said he did not expect the rise in commodity prices to feed into so-called core inflation, which the Fed monitors, as overall economic conditions still remained slack.

Fed officials have drawn on a number of other economic indicators, such as labour-force participation rate or wage growth, to assess the level of remaining slack in the economy.

That means setting Bank rate to eliminate the remaining slack in the economy, bringing about the sustained increase in costs necessary to achieve overall inflation of 2%," the governor said in a speech at Lincoln Cathedral.

That's fast enough job growth to continue to draw the remaining slack out of the job market.

Underemployment, or U6: This more comprehensive measure of labor under-utilization is now one of the most important variables to watch as it is more representative of remaining slack then the official rate.