In this scenario, the distribution of skeletal material, as well as the evidence for partial articulation, could be explained by the slow slumping of fleshed or semi-fleshed remains, downslope into the chamber.
On camera, the candidate sometimes cuts a pitiable figure: wandering around his apartment with an old man's walk, slow, head slumped.
Many Americans still seem ambivalent about free trade and will doubtless become more so if the economy slows or slumps.
At first, she rushes to meet the disaster, gathers things, and calls people, but then she slows and slumps, appears sleepy.
That meant the next week would be slow: the Lenten slump.
High-End Slump Slows The median price of America's high-end homes continues to slide, but not as fast as it did last year.
Much like today, the American economy was suffering from slow growth and a slump in investment, although interest rates were more than twice today's levels, and oil consumption was a larger share of GDP.
Mr. Chambers raised a warning flag for the second time this month, saying business in January for the No. 1 Internet-equipment maker was slow as an economic slump led customers to cut spending.
If, as still seems likely, the biggest among them slow but do not slump, then some sort of floor will be put under commodity prices and robust consumers in the emerging world will prop up exports from fragile debt-laden rich countries.But the emerging markets' resilience cannot be taken for granted.
For months, Fed officials and Wall Street forecasters have been predicting that the housing slump would slow the economy and that other factors, like corporate earnings, growth in other countries and strong wage advances, would keep the slowdown from being severe.
