After that, every group leaving camp got an aerial escort, which slowed operations elsewhere.

Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers also managed to mine the roads below, slowing Serbian operations.

The inventory drop comes even as many factories are slowing operations or shutting down entirely for seasonal retooling and summer maintenance.

Natural gas prices rose as more producers slowed operations until Hurricane Opal passed.

Many companies accused it of knuckling under in the 1999 negotiations after many union members refused to work overtime or took other measures to slow operations.

Inefficient searches are driving customers away and slowing operations, they said.

Texas Instruments continued its heavy spending to complete new chip-making plants and to finance research, but it slashed 1,600 jobs from slowing military operations.

This delay slowed subsequent Soviet operations in the Baltic Sea region.

There were no injuries, but the broken doors slowed operations for a couple of days while replacement doors were brought up from the Seattle area.

Already, some Japanese-owned auto plants in Thailand have had to slow operations because of the financial crisis.