Slater Steel Inc., a specialty steel maker in Mississauga, Ontario, filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States and Canada, citing weak demand, sliding prices and rising costs.
The overall stock market was almost as weak, but sliding commodities prices could have been as much cause as effect.
Manipulated readymades often work on a continuum that runs from the flimsy to the flat-footed, and this show, at its weakest, slides toward these extremes.
Michael Capellas, Compaq's chief executive, blamed the weak United States economy, sliding consumer confidence and cutbacks in industry capital spending, and he said he "remains concerned about future deterioration in global markets".
Finally, the end-fitting will deform less since the hardness is high: the assembly will be weak and premature sliding will occur.
The relationships among the structural parameters, compositions of the weak layers, dry sliding friction and wear behavior of the materials are investigated in this study.
The Japanese electronics maker Panasonic returned to the black last quarter as cost cuts and a weaker yen offset sliding sales.
Wigan's Honduran Maynor Figueroa took an outlet pass from goalkeeper Joel, noodled with the ball for a bit before sliding a weak backpass to Joel.
Florida, California, New York and New Jersey have all seen their tax collections come in below expectations in recent months as the nation has continued to struggle with high joblessness, a weak housing market, a sliding stock market and worries about the European debt crisis.
Other Asian markets, however, remained in negative territory for a third day on weak U.S. indicators and sliding commodities prices.
