The actual performance depends greatly on the application and varies from a slight slowdown to a 100x speedup.

Merrill is also well positioned for the slight slowdown that some analysts are anticipating this year.

This boom continued until the mid-1990s, and then a slight slowdown occurred, bringing the population to 80,865 in 2000.

Higher taxes also offset a slight slowdown in consumer price inflation leaving real earnings stagnant on the quarter.

And that interest rate decline has actually offset the slight slowdown in earnings.

Over the years, requests for traffic lights have ebbed and flowed, with a slight slowdown since Sept. 11, 2001.

This is a slight slowdown from the record rate of $942 billion in the fourth quarter of 2003, but still a healthy number.

The estimate represented a slight slowdown from the growth rate in the first quarter, when spending on newspaper ads increased 1.8 percent, to $9.9 billion.

The increase shows a slight slowdown from last year's 19% growth rate.

That paid off when the Argentine economy took off again, growing last year by 8 percent with only a slight slowdown so far this year.