Retail's risky--it only takes one slow season to end up swimming in inventory.
Fittingly, in a country where beach restaurants tend to raise prices rather than mark them down in the slow season, the amateur investors reckoned to be one in four adults are more enthusiastic than financially savvy.
Portland Roasting had a slow holiday season, but business is picking up, said owner Mark Stell.
Many of the more than 1, 000 exhibitors come from out of state and provide a huge boost to hotels, restaurants and other services during the a slow winter season.
Arizona has had a penchant for getting off to slow starts this season, particularly at home, of all places.
The ninth overall pick in the 2004 amateur draft, Nelson got off to a slow start this season, hitting just .242.
After a slow start to the season, Jack Ewart is now in full flow, beating Nathan Birdsall of Rothbury in the final.
At home, PSG has silenced all the critics who crowed over the club's slow start to the season and its second-place finish in the 2011-2012 campaign.
But that doesn't mean storms will be less powerful, or that the rest of the season will be slow.
In this lockout-shortened season, where slow starts can prove costly, all three are in a rush to recapture what made them so special last May.
And then, after last season, came the slow-motion betrayal to end all betrayals: The acrimonious departure of Dwight Howard to the Lakers.
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Whether or not you agree with me, eager beavers in the personal tax return filing department have an additional reason to slow down a bit this upcoming filing season.
Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), kicking off the Street's fiscal third-quarter earnings season, described trading during the slow summer months as "choppy" and "range-bound" and reported sharply lower revenues from most of its trading activities compared with a very strong second quarter.
And his wisdom became clear when the MP4-19 proved both slow and catastrophically unreliable at the start of the season.
"Any time you get off to a slow start is disappointing, even more so in a shortened season, " center and captain Jason Pominville said.
Duke shot 44 percent 52 percent after halftime and erased a slow start with that timely run and win its sixth straight this season and sixth in eight meetings in college basketball's fiercest rivalry.
That could slow sales at the start of the all-important spring-buying season.
Wal-Mart plans to keep a steadier flow of customer traffic this year by planning out an early discounting season rather than waiting until mid-December to clear out slow-moving merchandise.
Races last season witnessed only two lead changes per caution (the boring slow laps led by the pace car), compared with three in the 1990s and four in the dirt-track 1970s.
Yardy reached his first half century since the opening game of the season with a fine square drive off Kumble, before the wily slow bowler ousted him with a deceptive googly.
Last Resort has more potential for a slow and steady build, and might just be one of a few dramas this season that give ABC the boost it needs.
These 19-11 teams often start slow, lose key contributors to injury (or academics), or implode as the season wears on.
But how concerned are you that sort of the fact that the campaign season is here, for better or for worse, is going to basically slow down or end much of what you can get done?
Meanwhile, Microsoft is supposedly unconcerned about the early slow sales of Windows 8 because, well, the touchscreen PCs are mostly unavailable for the holiday season and Surface is only available through limited retail outlets.
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For his final Slow Food Fast contribution, Mr. Maws shares a recipe for pumpkin with broiled end-of-season eggplant and bitter rapini, aka broccoli rabe.
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In this elongated campaign season, there are third and fourth chances, opportunities to "re-set" a campaign slow to get off the starting block.
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