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During the long gestation period for the rules, circulation came to be valued as a revenue source, while ad revenues were plummeting.

As if to prove the point, the China-Japan summit appears to have done nothing for Mr Fukuda's approval ratings, which are plummeting.

A tremendous accomplishment would be if the planetary body he discovered were plummeting toward Earth and he exploded it with his mind.

Plummeting water oxygen levels due to a severe drought have led to thousands of fish dying along the Manaquiri River.

Prices have soared by as much as 60% over the last two years, after plummeting 40% at the beginning of the financial crisis.

Some demographers, however, argue that plummeting fertility rates and a rapidly aging population are reasons enough to ease the rules.

Business investment, which had been plummeting in the past few months, is showing signs of stabilizing.

Toyota Motor is to reduce year-end bonuses for thousands of managers as part of a cost- cutting drive in response to plummeting sales.

Oil producers are coping with the plummeting price of jet fuel as the result of a decrease in demand.

Now an analysis of 17 years of research data shows that the abundance of these deep-sea fishes is plummeting.

With revenue plummeting, legislatures and governors are often unable to agree on spending cuts or higher taxes to narrow the gap.

Unfortunately, my flight was cut short and I fizzled around like a shoddy firework before plummeting to the ground.

A plummeting dollar could complicate China's already touchy relationship with the U. S. , causing it to retaliate economically.

Crop experts have recommended a host of measures to help tackle plummeting biodiversity and improve the livelihoods of the rural poor.

That at least is the tale of the freshly falling dollar, rising gold and plummeting bond yields.

By the turn of the century, it had become apparent that the value of content was plummeting as more and more media were digitized.

Political enlightenment and an economic boom have led to great progress in the Amazon rainforest, with Brazil's deforestation plummeting.

This kind of shock threatens to upset the domestic economy by causing a surge or plummeting of the money supply .

This was largely due to plummeting energy and commodity prices, but will do nothing to dispel fears about potential deflation.

The revelations of Charles' relationship with a married woman, Camilla Parker Bowles, sent the Prince of Wales' popularity plummeting.

The disclosure of Charles' relationship with a married woman, Camilla Parker Bowles, sent the Prince of Wales' popularity plummeting.

Students hedge against the plummeting admissions rates by flooding the system with even more applications.

Surveillance video shows the 34-year-old man plummeting from the building, and bouncing as he hit the ground.

When they produce a surplus, they often get punished by plummeting prices.

The stockmarket's first reaction was gloomy, made worse by plummeting markets around the world, and businessmen found little to cheer about.

There were norocky cliffs where I could brush against the wretch with a little hipaction and send him plummeting. Then it hit me.

Japan's biggest carmaker Toyota has forecast its first annual loss in 71 years due to plummeting sales and a surge in the value of the yen.

Rivers and streams are drying up, crop yields are plummeting, and trees have begun to flower long before spring arrives.

The black hole swallowed only about half the star, which lost a huge amount of energy by plummeting into the black hole.

Will investment bankers be plummeting from the windows down on Wall Street?

The cost of higher education has contributed to plummeting birth rates among pushy parents in other rich countries, too.

With Congo's economy in tatters, its government near-bankrupt and his popularity plummeting, the young president needs a victory.

SEVERAL MILES AWAY, Josh is plummeting toward the rainforest, still wrapped in the tentacles of the deflating medusa.

But some hedge funds have been shorting First Solar on the basis that plummeting prices for normal cells will undermine its advantage.

First, run up large budget deficits to make up for plummeting private demand in the recession.

Plummeting corporate PC demand saw Lenovo fall far behind Acer in terms of market share.

These bonds had been plummeting in price for several months prior to the announcement.

Left to their own devices , manufacturers could not adjust capacity fast enough to offset plummeting orders .

With government expenditures that prolong the crisis soaring and revenues plummeting, public debts and deficits skyrocketed.

Financial markets were plummeting, driven by pessimistic growth forecasts in Europe and America.

The drops cut a wide swathe across the world, with exports plummeting in rich and poor countries alike.

Moreover, other commodities, including copper, have begun showing signs of life after nearly five months of plummeting demand.

Plummeting commodity prices drove down shares of energy and materials companies.

Today, the concern has shifted to maintaining growth in the face of plummeting exports and asset prices.

One reason for the frightening fourth-quarter contraction was plummeting exports to the mainland, which fell by half.

Then, hours later, a new problem sent the water levels plummeting again and left the fuel rods fully exposed.

A warning of high cadmium levels in a delicacy sends prices plummeting , and the seafood industry wants an apology.

With asset prices plummeting and economies shrinking, deflation will soon be a bigger worry.

Luxury stocks have been playing catch-up after plummeting during the crash.

When last seen, MySpace's visitor numbers were still plummeting, and nobody knows how to turn it around.

The $450 million program is designed to boost plummeting car sales in Britain that will in turn help to save auto sector jobs.

That could send the dollar plummeting, making imported goods more expensive for American consumers and businesses.

The stock markets, which many experts use to gauge global economies, have fluctuated wildly, plummeting from record highs.

Even worse, even a minor crash with another flying car could send both vehicles plummeting to the ground while you scream in terror.

Short-term, the measures have had their desired effect, with the Shanghai market up 9. 5% Friday after plummeting 9% this week.

Just about everything but fish is imported here, so the plummeting krona has caused prices of cars and food and furniture to rise rapidly.

Greek officials have blamed 'market speculation' for the plummeting price of Greek bonds in recent days.

With sales and revenues plummeting , no employer wanted to hire workers at the same wage rate prevailing at the height of the boom in 1929 .

What's more, climate change is expected to make some regions drier or hotter, which may send crop yields plummeting.

In Spain (see article) and Ireland vacancies are surging, property prices are plummeting and cranes are standing idle.

Plummeting demand has only moderated due to stimulus policies and zero interest rates.

As Europe wilts under a blistering sun, water levels in the region's rivers and reservoirs are plummeting.

Perhaps worst of all, GM found itself knocked from its perch as No. 1 automaker worldwide, a devastating blow to already plummeting moral.

A combination of low prices, high interest rates and plummeting land values devastated rural America.

Surely sunshine and blue skies lift the spirits while black clouds and torrential rain send them plummeting?

And we see the leonopteryx plummeting right behind her in a full delta tuck, like a hawk stooping.

The last thing she remembered was plummeting from a cliff.

And Wednesday's plummeting share prices in the US were dramatic, as investors ran for the exits and drove the indexes down a solid 2%.

He says the benefits from lower fuel prices are overshadowed by falling demand and plummeting revenues.

Tougher implementation of visa rules in recent months has already sent the number of tourists arriving in the Chinese capital plummeting.

Not all results were positive in the new report, with Middle East and North Africa fund-raising numbers plummeting.

So while ad pages are plummeting for all magazines, they're flirting with terminal velocity for business titles.

But plummeting stock prices are spurring normally docile shareholders to rebel.

It has been battered by floods of loan defaults caused by the credit crunch and plummeting home values .

Prospects in Russia, a previous bright spot, have dimmed given the plummeting rouble.

Much the same happened in May last year when hedge fund systems designed to avoid their being hit by plummeting markets did not work.

The teen pregnancy rate was soaring, and the high school graduation rate was plummeting to record lows.

Oil in particular had a rollercoaster year, rising from $100 a barrel to $147 in July before plummeting to $32 in December.

particularly in the wake of the overall stock market downturn, plummeting interest rates and general financial woes of the past 18 months.

The cartel has been bitten in the past when a mix of surging supply and slumping demand has sent prices plummeting.

The residential property market is plummeting.

Today, the image of SBDs plummeting on their targets in 70-degree dives remains an icon of naval aviation's attack community.

Crucially, the period of plummeting coincides with a phenomenon called the late Triassic fern spike.

Its sales of CDs are plummeting and it issued two profit warnings in the first two months of this year.

The weakest schools are concentrated in our poorest towns and cities, and we are plummeting down the international education league tables.

Today the cost of petrol is plummeting.

The step follows an accounting controversy at Longtop which sent the firm's shares plummeting last week.

But as ever more Americans go online instead of sending paper, the volume of mail has been plummeting (see chart right).

The biggest source of staff anger is the plummeting value of options and shares held by employees.

Most European cities became cheaper for expats, with Warsaw experiencing the most dramatic change, plummeting from 35th to 113th place.

But with property values plummeting, there is pressure to cut property taxes.

With exports plummeting, unemployment in northern industrial cities such as Saltillo has leapt into double digits.

Normally the brain's respiration center will detect the plummeting when levels and make baby breathe deeper.

Industrial-production numbers have fallen even more dramatically, plummeting in Taiwan, for example, by 32% in the year to December.

Another crisis caused, for example, by Europe's debt problems could send local-currency bond prices plummeting.

Consumer spending, after plummeting late last year, is up slightly this year, despite a continuing rise in the savings rate.

Carrefour posted the biggest decline in the Stoxx 600, plummeting 7. 3 percent to 32. 30 euros, the biggest drop since May.

When world output was plummeting last year, the BRICs' economic stimulus programmes did a lot to stabilise it.

Merrill Lynch pointed out that Japan is still the wealthy family of champions, but the stock market plummeting, the growth rate is slow;

Faced with plummeting oil prices, oil giants Exxon and Mobil sought to achieve economies of scale through a $250bn merger

A bigger long-term worry is the plummeting price of digital storage

Photo 2: 1990s - Plummeting house prices and Kate Moss starts modelling