As the older model's sales fizzle, so the younger one can take up the slack.
If one region is hurting, theres at least a chance that another will take up the slack.
Once the 405 closes, other routes, already heavily trafficked, will be forced to take up the slack.
To take up the slack, Brazilian farmers are clearing more of the Amazonian rain forest to plant soybeans.
Were Japan's recovery broad-based, an export slowdown would matter less, because domestic consumption would take up the slack.
It shut down mental hospitals but never delivered on the promise of community clinics to take up the slack.
With consumer demand weak in the U.S., American businesses are looking to markets abroad to take up the slack.
Both have private-equity businesses, which might take up the slack during a slowdown.
To take up the slack, many Ukrainians who live near their western frontier have become dependent on border trade.
Moreover, Japan has done little to prepare for a military confrontation, instead relying on Washington to take up the slack.
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And even if the Colombian coca crop falls significantly, all the signs are that Peru and Bolivia will take up the slack.
If some sectors of the Cypriot economy - finance, construction, real estate, retailing - must inevitably shrink, what other parts could take up the slack?
Other businesses will struggle to take up the slack any time soon.
When construction, exports and investment plunged, nothing could take up the slack.
But they hope that exports and consumption can take up the slack.
To encourage the private sector to take up the slack he will slash taxes on bonds to pay for new, government-approved infrastructure projects.
Some think that the Valley's larger listed companies can take up the slack by acquiring more start-ups (a trend that has been growing).
There has been a lot of talk about school lunches, films made on the issue and businesses trying to take up the slack.
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With just four big accounting firms remaining, and none of the next tier big enough to take up the slack, the corporate world cannot easily handle another accounting-firm failure.
If a wimpy greenback meant fewer purchases of foreign products by American consumers, domestic consumption in Europe and Japan might not rise by enough to take up the slack.
It may also help China to develop domestic demand that can take up the slack when America's appetite for cheap goods falters, as it inevitably must given the paucity of its national savings.
But you see, when nearly 70 percent of black kids are born to unmarried parents, likely to a too-young mom, that puts tremendous pressure on grandmothers (and some grandfathers), sisters and brothers to take up the slack.
That means Sony Ericsson's rather flaky-looking portfolio, which is in sore need of some high-end smartphones to rival Apple and Samsung, won't get a significant facelift until 2010--leaving only planned cost savings to take up the slack.
Sales of DVD discs have begun to decline, however, and Blu-ray has yet to take up the slack, leading some analysts to conclude that retailers risk losing sales to movie downloads, much as they lost CD sales to music downloads.
Realistically, however, even an improved state pension would not be enough to take up all the slack left by retreating companies.
Natural gas, which emits 45% less carbon dioxide than coal, would take up most of the slack.
Renewable energy remains too expensive, too land-hungry, too unreliable and too small-scale to take up much slack, so cheap coal and newly abundant natural gas will do the job.
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