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...private-equity houses themselves. As an example of how quickly the sector has fallen out of favor, shares in the Blackstone Group, a private-equity giant in the U.S., have dropped about 20% since its initial public offering just weeks ago, and the firm has warned of a significant slowdown in deals...
...housing slowdown affected chairs and tables too. Sales dropped 3% at home-furnishings stores...
...federal funds to Harvard last year, has seen its budget decrease in real terms every year since 2003. Corporate-sponsored projects account for less than 6 percent of research funding at Harvard, but the University may need to attract more private money in response to the federal funding slowdown...
...early 1980s, the UAW gave some ground on benefits. But in the 1990s the automakers came roaring back to profitability--helped by falling gas prices (which boosted the pickup and SUV segments still dominated by Detroit), a booming stock market (which made pensions easier to finance) and a slowdown in medical-cost inflation...
...Neri identified two factors behind the slowdown: The stabilization of Brazil's economy after decades of boom and bust; and the adoption by local Catholic diocese of some of the methods that brought success to the Protestant denominations...