Banks aren't picking up the slack in demand in the auction rate market.
Natural gas is not picking up the slack and is in short supply.
Growth is slowing - that is the point, Mr Koehler said, adding that no region was picking up the slack.
They're doing all these things to come together as a community and picking up the slack for the government actually.
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The overall share of fossil fuels in the electricity supply has fallen with wind and solar power picking up the slack.
Analyst Beth Reed writes that Asian consumers are picking up the slack from reticent spenders in Western economies and pushing demand for diamonds higher.
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With the foreign buyers' market slowing, local brokers are depending more on Brazilians, who haven't been picking up enough slack in the luxury property market.
"Senior partners are doing less work and the younger guys are picking up the slack, " says a 30-year-old junior partner at a Silicon Valley firm.
Picking up the slack in terms of influence on a number of topics are below-C-suite-level marketing talent, like social media managers and heads of digital.
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By every indication, individuals aren't picking up the slack.
Fortunately, technology is picking up the slack.
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But in my home, I was trying to hold on to as much of the traditional female role as possible, partly because my husband wasn't backing me up in terms of picking up the slack in our family relationships.
Layoffs and company reorganizations have left many women picking up the slack--on the job and at home--which is adding to their professional workloads and leaving precious few minutes left in the day for household chores that continue to pile up.
Guess who is picking up all of the slack while I am out of town?
While these pharmaceutical firms are facing patent losses in a lot of developed markets, emerging markets are picking up some of the slack and offering some opportunity for growth where the developed markets are lagging.
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The Saks Fifth Avenue store has always welcomed many European visitors, and while traffic from western and central European clients has slowed, Russian, Brazilian and Chinese tourists are picking up at least some of the slack.
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