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Fox is picking up an unusually high number of new shows, partly because it has seen its momentum in prime time slacken over the past two years as its longtime bellwether show, "American Idol," has suffered ratings declines.

But there come moments -- while a hurricane is making its way inland or firefighters are waiting for winds to slacken over Southern California -- when we seem to live in at least two weathers at once.

This year has been a period of recovery for Xiaomi, which saw its once-explosive sales growth slacken over the past two years as it came to terms with aggressive rivals in China and the difficult challenge of growing its presence outside of its homeland.

So the stakes are high, the pressure, which sometimes slackens over the course of a long county season, particularly intense.

THE pace at which the world's forests are vanishing has slackened over the past decade but it is still alarming, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, a UN agency.

Its contribution to productivity growth obviously slackened over time, but in the 1960s was still about 25%, before falling to 7% in the 1980s as the system neared completion.In this section Rushing on by road, rail and air America's splurge ReprintsOf course, the interstates have their critics, then and now.

"This is a time for cool resolve," Nato's spokesman, Jamie Shea, said as all Nato's 16 ambassadors met in Brussels to agree to restore the full-scale bombing offensive of up to 800 sorties a day, a scale which had slackened over the weekend in the belief that Serb withdrawal was imminent.

The country has a long and uptight temperance tradition that has only recently slackened over the past couple of decades.

The ties slackened more over the last 15 years, as the city moved to a system of choice, which allows students to apply to any high school regardless of where they live.

As sanctions continue to slacken, the competition between Europeans over the Iranian market could become quite fierce.

While the governments in the affected countries and officials at the WHO have been at pains to suggest that the battle against Ebola is far from over, aid agencies fear that the response will slacken given the dramatic falls in the number of deaths from the disease.