Cross-border traffic from Europe to theU.S.picked up again in April, after tailing off somewhat in March.

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The factors that had been supporting the growth in Russian GDP started tailing off.

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Discoveries have been tailing off for years and refining is one big bottleneck.

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The spending is already tailing off a bit and scheduled to decline in 2011 so soon the net impact on the economy will be negative, Markowska notes.

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The gas rushes out rapidly in the first year or so before tailing off quite fast to a third of the original flow and gradually declining thereafter.

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But it was nevertheless weaker than forecast and even the economic optimists accept that pace of growth is tailing off in the final three months of the year.

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That's when the numbers start tailing off.

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But the boom is tailing off.

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The Korea Times story painted a scenario where Samsung was gradually tailing off its supply of LCDs to Apple over the course of this year, quoting a source as saying the Korean company had shipped 15 million displays to Apple in the first six months of 2012, but less than 3 million during the third quarter, which ended in September.

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The tailing-off in job growth is a red flag for the future health of the economy.

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These are the products that springboard off pre-tailing platforms into the e-tailing world.

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