Don’t slack off!
不要偷懒!
International trade is slack this year.
今年国际贸易不景气。
There is no slack in the budget.
预算没有富余。
Inside the company's Slack, a mass resignation occurred after Musk's 5 pm deadline.
在该公司的Slack内部,马斯克在下午5点的最后期限后发生了大规模辞职。
Embraer said the aircraft model, with fewer seats, is suitable to complete trunk line fleets in slack seasons.
The Journal said investors in SoftBank's Vision Fund also expressed concern about investments in Uber, best known for its ride-hailing service; Slack Technologies, a developer of communications software; Wag, an application to connect dog walkers with dog owners; Brandless, an e-commerce company specializing in environmentally conscious beauty and personal care products; and Zume, a developer of software for the automated baking and delivery of pizza.
In an internal letter to employees, Zhou said the circumstances and stage of financing dictated that the platform could not tolerate any slack in its operations.
Workplace messaging company Slack Technologies Inc plans to hold an investor presentation on Monday in advance of its direct listing next month.
"In an industry where most grades of paper are facing slack demand, tissues are one of the few specialties where sales are actually climbing," Williams said.
Lin said that it was easy for such companies to get slack and rigid if they did not keep innovating.
The federation warned of the persistent operation pressures in the sector in June, citing factors including waning demand due to the slack season and high external risks.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said the manufacturing sector remains under pressure due to slack demand at both home and abroad, and the sector may continue to face challenges from a cloudy global outlook.
"Given the large slack in the economy and low inflation, a continued fiscal policy with a shift to greater support for households and consumption, combined with some additional interest rate-based monetary easing, would promote a balanced recovery in 2023.
The sub-indices for bulk commodity sales and supply posted slower month-on-month expansion in May, while the sub-index for stocks continued to decrease from the month before, pointing to an earlier-than-expected slack season and greater operation pressure in the sector.
Although China has entered the slack season for chemical fertilizer sales, some companies have started increasing the inventory to stabilize the market and meet the demand of farmers.
XI'AN — For farmer Song Naihong, July and August are usually a slack period after the summer harvest.
More importantly, stronger purchase and mortgage policy adjustments are needed to further boost the slack demand, especially by fulfilling people's needs to buy better homes, he said.
Xu attributed the sharp decline to factors like a traditionally slack season after booming sales of the Spring Festival holiday, logistics challenges intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the longer smartphone upgrade cycle.
But the acreage dwindled to about 133 hectares mainly due to slack market demand and insufficient processing equipment and technologies, said Li.
Winter is no longer a slack travel season in China, thanks to the popularity and increasing availability of ice and snow activities, high-end hot springs and things to do indoors.
"The second quarter is a relatively slack season for baijiu sales.
"The outbreak of SARS occurred in March, a relatively slack travel season.
The sample products comprised 40 tops, 30 pairs of slacks and 30 pairs of jeans, with prices varying from 39.9 yuan (around $5.8) to 3,800 yuan (around $551.9).
A total of 25 garments failed to meet national standards – eight tops, six pairs of slacks and 11 pairs of jeans, with unqualified number of these products recording multiple quality problems.
There was a time when winter was a slack season for the Palace Museum.
Caution has grown among investors on fears of a slack market stuck in oversupply and weak demand.
Recyclers in Malaysia, Vietnam, Turkey, Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea have subsequently picked up some of the slack.
Winter, and especially the year's end, used to be a slack season for tourism.
This September, only 15,283 pre-owned apartments were traded in Beijing, up just 1.61 percent from the slack season of August, according to property consultancy Centaline.
The first quarter is usually a period of slack sales of vehicles.
About 1.44 million used cars changed hands in July, up 1.88 percent over June despite a traditionally slack season for business, according to the China Automobile Dealers Association.
It added that owing to the favorable conditions, the auto market has witnessed sound momentum in this year's slack season of July.
The CPCA attributed the sales slowdown to slack production and bad weather in August.
Xu attributed the sharp decline to such factors as a traditionally slack season after the booming sales of the Spring Festival holiday and logistics challenges intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"In fact, we see inflation normalizing as the Chinese economy continues to recover after the pandemic and economic slack slowly disappears.
Despite headwinds like lending rates trending down and slack economic performance both at home and abroad, the combined first-half profits of China's six largest State-owned banks by assets edged up, raising hopes of a stable second half as expectations are building for a strong rebound of the Chinese economy.
Wang Jiyue, an independent investment banking analyst, however, said July can be considered a "slack season" for IPOs as most applicants file their documentation in June ahead of obligations like having to file midyear financial statements from July 1.
Having invested in Razer, Improbable, Facebook, Zoom, Blockstream and Slack, the Hong Kong-based venture capital firm focuses on innovative companies and disruptive technologies.