1.   For one thing, the light dimmed as it slowed through the rubidium.

2.   Growth, which boomed in the first half of the year, is expected to slow through next year but remain healthy.

3.   The deceleration of the light in the rubidium differed in several ways from how light slows through an ordinary lens.

4.   Vice Finance Minister Takeshi Komura said at a press conference yesterday the pace of growth in the surplus would slow through the end of the year.

5.   Voter.com expects traffic will slow through the holidays but pick up again during the new year, when the new president is inaugurated and Congress gets going.

6.   Yet many of those added were part-time and day workers, and those jobs might disappear when the economy slows through this summer, the government said.

7.   The spokesman noted that ordinary passenger car output slowed through the summer amid efforts to cut inventories.

8.   He said the figures indicated that the economy would slow through the rest of the year as businesses work off inventory.

9.   But the bid to carry it out was slowed through a combination of court action and political pressures.