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As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials looms for late summer, consumers are beginning to encounter shrinking food packages.

But Serbia has one of the oldest populations in Europe and a low fertility rate, so the population is shrinking by 30, 000 a year.

Losses on the toxic loans LBG inherited in that deal have been shrinking at a much faster rate of late than the bank had anticipated.

The only optimum design scheme was the combination form of full breadth weir and downside the shrinking weir.

Antarctic sea ice, for instance, does not seem to be shrinking, probably because increased melting is balanced by more snow.

The 'bulge' at the Equator had been shrinking by less than a millimetre a year, according to National Geographic.

But with all the turmoil in the economy, the product almost certainly would be shrinking if it were not restricted to cash transactions.

He said the number of tanker vehicles hauling fuel has dropped on a shrinking demand for petroleum.

And, in a time of shrinking budgets, turf battles between the fusion centers and federal law enforcement are a certainty.

The consequences of that would be all the more threatening against a background of already shrinking output and trade flows.

As for next year's trend of exports, not to be grim To open up emerging markets may be ripe to make up for shrinking market impact.

"It sounded As if you were praying, " she said bravely, but she felt herself inside to be withering and shrinking.

All this could reduce productivity growth at a time when labour forces in these countries will be growing more slowly or even shrinking.

Mr Schwarzenegger wanted to eliminate entire programmes wholesale, but now appears ready to settle for shrinking them.

The newest satellite techniques and field observations allow us to see that the volume of ice is shrinking much faster than its area today.

But one must be blind in order not to see that oceans no longer belong to the West, while land under its domination keeps shrinking.

He said the government needed to seek solutions for swelling urban populations and shrinking resources.

Sometimes he made an effort, coaxing her to walk with baby steps to exercise her shrinking muscles.

Mr Obama says that he refuses to leave seniors "at the mercy of the insurance industry, with a shrinking benefit to pay for rising costs" .

Record migration into a fast-shrinking job market have been a charged issue in recent years.

In Europe, with its increasing numbers of elderly and a shrinking labour force, every notch upwards in unemployment spells further misery.

Let me go to bed, then, ' answered the boy, shrinking from Catherine's salute; and he put his fingers to his eyes to remove incipient tears.

But a victory over Sony and Microsoft in a shrinking market, he says, would not be a victory at all.

If your annual loss was shrinking year after year, then you would be probably be able to come out of it, like Amazon did.

Japanese manufacturers had been focused on cutting production and exports as inventories piled up in response to shrinking demand.

That the world remains so dollar-centric, given America's shrinking share of world output, is something of an anomaly.

He seemed to have no idea of shrinking from it, and set forward at last most punctually with his eldest daughter in his own carriage .

Science has developed no cure for envy, so our wealth boosts our happiness only briefly while shrinking that of our neighbors.

Since the money supply would be shrinking fast, as euro deposits fled the country, this sort of paper would be accepted readily.

Think of the effect that this will have on the already shrinking economies of your world.

Just then, everybody's looking at this couple with hateful eyes and the couple's going like this, you know, shrinking.

The problem is not lack of desire to spend, but lack of money: Household disposable income has been shrinking as a share of GDP.

Faced with shrinking budgets, he wanted something that could be achieved quickly without getting bogged down in red tape.

It is now shrinking, but its remnants must be dragged into the light, with over-the-counter derivatives pushed onto central clearinghouses.

Credit-card lending is still shrinking, though much more slowly than a year ago.

With all her love of knowledge she had a natural shrinking from raising curtains and looking into unlighted corners.

As she looked the image of a growing family seemed to slowly recede to reveal the image of a shrinking woman.

The role of the intellectual may be shrinking into that of the micro-blogger or street organizer.

But a new market opened up and dominated by Apple is better than a shrinking market, or no market at all.

Dell, meanwhile, is trying to rebound from shrinking market share in PCs and tightening profit margins.

Companies worry, too: they do not like the idea of their domestic markets shrinking.

I was near the door and can still see before me that shrinking, retreating figure.

So here I am with the couple, the three of us shrinking at the foot of Calvary about to be up, you know.

So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly.

This process eats into a pool of collateral already shrinking with the withering market values of many eurozone sovereigns' bonds.

The amount of this lending has fallen in recent years. But it has grown as a share of the fund's shrinking portfolio.

Often, the only alternative is a very expensive helicopter trip. The sense of shrinking space here is almost tangible.

After all, China is expected to grow by more than 8 per cent this year, not bad in a year when virtually all its rivals are shrinking.

George has a very good mind. He would rise fast in the world if he weren't such a shrinking violet.

New Orleans has been shrinking since the 1960s, but slowly, so nearly all of the loss can be chalked up to Katrina.

Her face was still upturned, and her eyes had suddenly grown intensely bright, but he read no shrinking in them.

"All I got were a few shrinking door keys and a biting kettle, " yawned Mr. Weasley.

The first stimulus is now expiring and much of its contribution was cancelled out by the shrinking of state and local-government budgets.

Like the elders of Nagasaki, the prime minister, Naoto Kan, realises that Japan must look abroad since its own markets are shrinking.

The decline was Taiwan's biggest on a year-on-year basis and marks its fourth consecutive month of shrinking exports.

Others say that Japan needs deeper structural reforms to raise productivity, especially in the face of a shrinking population.

The countries agreed excess debt was acceptable, so long as it appeared to be shrinking.

President Barack Obama is the incredibly shrinking leader, waiting to see whether Congressional power barons will call.

Neither bank's balance-sheet is shrinking , although they do both have more safe assets like government bonds than a year ago .

The upshot of any dip in the sun's output is that the sun should also be shrinking.

Many scientists believe that they were made up from the shrinking and clumping together of a vast cloud of dust and gas in space.

Russia, with its shrinking teenage population, is an unlikely spot for a box-office boom.

The force shrinking the coil is the same one acting to push the coil away . Think of a hammer blow as a fair analogy of the forces involved.

Goldman Sachs predicts that the next prime minister will spend his first year in office presiding over a shrinking economy.

Yet, although two of their biggest markets are shrinking, investors seem to like their stocks.

It would be if the shrinking surplus had been caused by a surge in domestic spending, rather than a collapse in exports.

The arrangement was a fairly common means of shrinking labor costs in the recession of the early 1980s.

Verizon and AT&T have found a way to offer a premium product to a shrinking but lucrative segment of the market.

The money supply is now shrinking in Britain, suggesting its uncomfortably high inflation will pass.

"The main impact of the financial crisis has not been factory closures but shrinking orders and manufacturing capacity. "

At the time of the London summit, the U. S. economy was shrinking at an annual rate of 6%.

The Arctic sea ice is shrinking so fast that within the next few decades, if not years, it could be completely gone in summertime.

THE economy stopped shrinking a year ago, but America's unemployment problem is as big as ever.

What used to be a must-see for the country is watched by a shrinking audience.

The software business needs fewer people and less capital; handy for a country with a shrinking population and tight-fisted banks.

And because the most religious seem to have the most children, the secular figure is likely to keep shrinking.

It has been engulfed, like the rest of the world, by recession and shrinking global trade.

Stress is generated by the swell-shrinking deformation constraints and the concept of moisture change stress is put forward.

The U. S. economy is still shrinking, five months after Congress agreed to President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package.

So, nanotechnology is about building new stuff, not just shrinking the old stuff. -Look at nanotechnology in a sort of wider sphere.

And, while the U. S. manufacturing sector is always described as shrinking, that's because U. S. factories are highly efficient.

Researchers don't know why brains might be shrinking, but some theorize that they're evolving to be more efficient.

North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Now, their ever-shrinking domain is down to just parts of two continents. . .

The cutbacks come as Harley (HOG, Fortune 500) scales back in the face of a sharply shrinking market.

Economic change is relentlessly shrinking their base: manufacturing jobs are in decline at a time when brain-working jobs are expanding.

In Denmark the working-age population is already shrinking, but a larger proportion of this smaller population is actually working.

With that market shrinking, banks have to hold on to more of the loans they make.

Another two days, this green mango down slowly shrinking, body fat, wrinkled, haggard face became purple sauce, like a little old man dying.

The idea of building up an endowment to replace shrinking natural resources did not exist.

Its productive capacity keeps soaring, but Chinese consumers are taking home a shrinking proportion of the total economy.

How could such a drastic shrinking of government take place without crippling essential public functions?

But I'm wondering if he's from a culture where "koro" (a belief that the penis is shrinking) is prevalent.

Bailed out by the state, the bank is shrinking its business drastically.

Cable and satellite operators have tolerated the shrinking margins that come with higher carriage fees so far, but will not do so for ever.

Alzheimer's disease usually strikes people over the age of 60 and causes memory loss, shrinking brain tissue and eventually death.

Toy sales have held help up better than apparel and home-decor sales, but the revenue stream is still shrinking.

Desirable as it seems, a closer look at the report revealed contradictory facts and a trend toward a shrinking labor population.

A more likely outcome, in present circumstances, is mass default, shrinking profits, damaged banks and a renewed slump.

Traditionally, an SRAM chip is made more dense by shrinking its basic building block, often referred to as a cell.

The U. S. car market does not need more companies competing for a shrinking pie.

But biotechnology is quickly speeding up, shrinking down and automating the work of genetically engineering microorganisms .

Not, in a prolonged penile foreskin following section, shrinking its own degradation, and maintain a stable state.

Sunspots and other clues indicate that the sun's magnetic activity is diminishing, and that the sun may even be shrinking.

Its profit margins have been shrinking, along with its market share and the average price of its phones.

She saw that he resented her shrinking; but it seemed to excite him to run amuck the more.

To understand how pages of memory from the buffer cache are assigned when using NUMA, see Growing and Shrinking the Buffer Pool Under NUMA.

In a clear sign that the regulators' demand for self-policing by the industry is working, the size of the applications is also shrinking.

Mr. Klein said that this percentage has been shrinking over the years, for all varieties of nuts.

Simply put, most of the parts of American society that have tended to vote Republican are shrinking in size.

Worn-out consumers battered by job losses, shrinking nest eggs have retrenched, throwing the economy into a tailspin.

Again, I wondered if I could be dreaming. Second by second America was shrinking.

Dell on Monday projected shrinking profit margins, and on Tuesday told analysts that companies continue to put off technology purchases.

This world could be one in which countries compete for a shrinking market share, putting risky assets under more pressure.

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Although it is no consolation for the Japanese, their shrinking trade surplus contributes to the growth of the rest of the world.

But despite shrinking paychecks nearly across the board, some cities still stand out for their bigger than average salaries.

Japan's ugly demography, with a shrinking working-age population and a growing grey-haired one, helped the downward pressure on wages.

But it appears that as the reality of a shrinking work force draws closer, so does a loosening of government restrictions.

They were brought to Sichuan to reflect China's efforts to protect the species, which are endangered due to a shrinking habitat.

Mr. Obama said shrinking that shortfall would be the top priority for his new budget director.

The "hill" around the center was only a meter tall now and shrinking rapidly as the concentric rings eased back to the floor of the room.

That should shrink the total size of the binary substantially. And I have other ideas for shrinking it too.

In some cases, a decrease in a patient's symptoms may signal whether or not the medications are shrinking the tumor.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The cooling and shrinking continued until hydrogen and helium began to fuse igniting the fusion engine that powers our sun and other stars.

The company intends to restructure itself by shrinking its dealer network and merging with Italian auto maker Fiat.

Rather than dramatically shrinking both the size and the number of its stores, Blockbuster just kept throwing good money after bad.

As long as the money supply is not shrinking there is no way one can have deflation.

Despite iTunes, piracy and a shrinking population, CD sales have fallen much more gently in Germany than elsewhere (see chart).

'We see international demand shrinking, as well, leading GM's non-U. S. profits to evaporate, ' S&P said in a note.

This week Time Warner's new boss, Jeff Bewkes, said he planned to spin off AOL's shrinking internet-access business.

Due to the effects of climate change, shrinking habitat, and an increase in pollutants in northern waters, their future is uncertain.

How best should inhabitants and investors alike try to preserve their wealth in the face of their incredible shrinking currency?

As you build more walls, the part of the world that you can see keeps shrinking.

Costa Rica's clearance was also reduced by better law enforcement and a shrinking national beef industry.

But the relationship has broken down recently: electricity use is still shrinking, while IVA is growing at a decent rate again.

They say that while business continues to grow along with the overall pie, foreigners' share of it is mostly shrinking.

Urban expansion, industrial construction, and highway construction are all shrinking the land available for crops.

The timeframe left to these governments to put their programs into operation is shrinking as Gaia escalates her changes.

Boosting productivity to counter the effects of a shrinking workforce will require a cultural revolution, especially in business.

Its profit margins have been shrinking, along with the average price of its phones and its market share.

New sources of growth, he insists, have to be found by drastically (and painfully) shrinking the state.

Subject to the influence of imported drinks packaging, a shrinking film heat used to trade marks-mounted layered soft country.

His companionship made it possible for me to shake off my shrinking sensitiveness.

He rolled down the window, the night air whipping his hair, and looked back at the shrinking rooftops of Privet Drive.

The report also said shrinking exports of labor-intensive products contributed to the historic deficit as well.

Deutsche Bank in Tokyo predicts a "severe depression" , with the economy shrinking at least until late 2010.

We would have avoided all this suffering simply by shrinking from strife.

Not since Mr Putin came to power have high inflation and shrinking GDP caused such a fall in real incomes (see article).

Many members have to think about making a living now that the army is shrinking.

Germany, she says, is an over-indebted, export-oriented economy with an ageing, shrinking population.

Spain is overbanked and profitability is sinking quickly atthese institutions, thanks to a higher cost of funding and shrinking credit.

Shipments from Europe to America are also shrinking, after three years of solid growth.

For the moment, earnings are only being held up by costs shrinking fast alongside revenue.

The population is ageing and shrinking; to avoid shrinking with it, Japanese firms must expand overseas.

More significant, economists say, 20 percent of the shrinking manufacturing sector is still tied to the automobile industry.

Over the long term, however, America faces gloom: a shrinking labour force.

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The low fertility rate in many of that continent's more developed countries means their populations are ageing and shrinking.

With a soaring population and a stock of natural resources that is shrinking fast, it is hard to be optimistic.

The quotas of these metals to foreign companies are shrinking fast, giving China's own state-owned enterprises an upper hand.

Fears are growing over the state's ability to meet the welfare needs of an ageing, shrinking population.

The purchase surprised the market and came as an intense July heat wave was shrinking the potential size of the Midwest crop.

But just as you don't want to be a shrinking violet who is fearful of sharing thoughts, you don't want to be labeled as disruptive either.

Attention spans are getting shorter, while an increasing number of products and services compete for this ever-shrinking commodity.

But under the impact of the financial crisis, the company's business is shrinking trend, the fabric of choice is also simplified and low.

But the contribution of foreign demand to China's growth has always been exaggerated, and it is now shrinking.

At this moment, the risks of missteps seem higher to many people, with thousands of financiers interviewing for a shrinking number of jobs.

To be sure, the rate of shrinking is not overly dramatic.

Most troubling for the airlines, however, was the shrinking load factors, which measure how full a plane is.

The warnings have come from a range of industries, but companies tied to shrinking global trade are particularly badly hit.

DEMOGRAPHY may not be destiny, but it matters in rich countriesn where ageing and shrinking populations are bringing economic problems.

Charlie McCreevy, EU internal market commissioner, has called them "shrinking violets" , unwilling and unable to tackle the problem.

Mainline Protestants, however, seemed delighted by the festival, and may well latch on to the emergents to shore up their shrinking numbers.

Since the sweater is too small already, don't worry about its shrinking; that's water over the dam.

The dwindling birth rate has left the nation with a shrinking population and the world's highest proportion of elderly people.

Some of the problems of shrinking cities are so fundamental that there is no quick fix.

Consequently, concentrations of salts and minerals began to rise in the shrinking body of water.

DEMOGRAPHY may not be destiny, but it matters in rich countries where ageing and shrinking populations are bringing economic problems.

Trade flows are shrinking at the fastest rates since the second world war, felling export-dependent economies from Germany to Japan .

Conclusion. SAE in a pediatric case with ABC of the mobile spine was effective in improving of clinical symptom and shrinking of the cyst.

There were exceptions to this, and the role of the railway in shrinking distances within China in the early 20th century should be noted.

Milton Friedman is best known for his work on the idea that governments can slow inflation by shrinking the money supply.

The company is specialized in producing PVC film label-shrinking more than 10 years, with professional skills.

Unmanned remote cameras helped photographer Michael Nichols capture startling images of the endangered cats in their shrinking range.

However, as other powers rise, and as America becomes increasingly preoccupied with its economic future, the margin for error is shrinking.

In coming years, all countries may have to fight over a shrinking global savings pool as baby boomers retire.

This type of movement -- given Japan's weak economic outlook and its shrinking population -- is likely to continue.

Astronomers have declared that the moon is shrinking after spotting wrinkles all over the lunar surface.

However, poor infrastructure and a shrinking talent pool are hurdles to potential expansion.

He warned against shrinking the military, predicting that troubles would rise again in Europe (and he was right).

The validity of the model was verified by the shrinking of the circle grain embedded concentricity in a square.

Then the gradual shrinking process of all package sizes begins anew, he said.

And without deep cost-cutting and reform, the system will struggle to cope with the coming incredible shrinking of Japan.

In their view, pressure for harmonization of the term of copyright protection leads to the shrinking of the public domain.

Blue-collar wages have actually soared recently, while white-collar pay is shrinking, thanks to a massive glut of university graduates.

The economic pie was shrinking, so everyone was reaching for the biggest slice while there was still something left to grab.

But for many universities, faced with shrinking endowments and a rising pool of financial-aid applicants, this is no easy decision.

To put it simply, every shrinking demographic is Republican and every growing one is Democratic.

The air force's transport fleet is in a poor state and the navy is shrinking, but the army is worst off.

This obviously has nothing to do with greater property rights, shrinking the state, and meeting WTO standards.

Cross-border assets as a share of bank balance sheets have been shrinking, as have global syndicated loan volumes.

Shrinking grazing areas and a lack of investment in fodder trees may thwart a sustainable revival.

The group begun shrinking in 2009 when Berkeley laid off several staff, he said.

Partly thanks to such failings, the economy has tanked, with GDP shrinking in 2009 by more than in any other big European country.

That means that they have to repay any extra debt out of the remaining fraction of their income, which is shrinking.

Less noticed is the fact that new supplies come from a shrinking number of countries, few of which are stable democracies.

These changes result in a smaller number of graduates, which in turn results in a shrinking skilled workforce.

But Mr Aida says it may reflect caution over the shrinking population, the strong yen and poor economic prospects.

Most Fed officials agreed that the outlook is weaker, so it no longer made sense to tighten policy by shrinking the Fed's balance sheet.

To stave off defeat, they held tens of thousands of civilians as human shields in their shrinking corner of northern Sri Lanka.

But Western Europe's share in the German pie is shrinking as companies focus new investment on more vibrant markets.

The growing fusion between information and entertainment is a worrying contribution to the public's shrinking attention span.

On the remote Scottish island of Hirta, sheep have been getting smaller, shrinking an average of 5% over the last 24 years.

With a shrinking population and workforce, losing skilled hands would only compound the country's woes when the economy eventually recovers.

Fiscal borrowing replaced private borrowing as the counterpart of large, albeit shrinking, external deficits.

Now a few planners and politicians are starting to try something new: embracing shrinking.

As such, Gru eventually conspires to steal no less than the moon using a stolen device that's capable of shrinking objects to pocket size.

Regardless of location, these deals are a response to the same circumstance: a shrinking domestic market as Japan's population grays.

Dont you know youve been shrinking yourself?

Material, fabric: this week in Changxing textile city cloth trading is not smooth, and shrinking daily trading volume material in products.

As I flinched away from him, shrinking against my chair, the phrase if looks could kill suddenly ran through my mind.

Shrinking the debt burden passed on to future generations may be a fair justification.

But mass retailers demand discounts of up to 60% for bulk orders, shrinking margins.

For years, America's automakers have faced serious challenges -- burdensome costs, a shrinking share of the market, and declining profits.

Today, in a growing number of industries, competition, and the slow growth of demand is stagnant or even shrinking.

Chinese authorities have promised to subsidize farmers hit by the shrinking demand for milk, the news agency Xinhua said.

It binds to the DNA of a cancer cell and blocks its ability to multiply, thus killing the cells and shrinking tumors.

A month later, he recalls, NCI doctors broke into wide grins as they saw his tumors already shrinking. By the time Mr.

And by shrinking their arsenals, nuclear powers can encourage their non-nuclear cousins not to seek such weapons themselves.

Still, some parts of the travel industry have proved adept at reacting to shrinking demand.

In an environment of shrinking margins and flat demand, herbs and vegetables are offering higher gross margins.

Bank credit is still shrinking; cash balances at Japanese companies have crept ever higher.

Shrinking that oversized industry won't make Wall Street happy, but what's bad for Wall Street would be good for America.

Bereavements are raining into my life which are making my shrinking heart quiver in its intensity of suffering.

Data centers are growing and administrative staffs are shrinking, necessitating efficient monitoring tools for compute resources.

Its agricultural productivity is nonetheless stunted; the number of families living off farming is shrinking.

An iceberg floats in the bay at Kulusuk, Greenland near the artic circle. Scientists say global warming is shrinking glaciers.

Firstly, its shrinking population is also an ageing one in which the labour force will decline as a share of the population.

China's workforce will shortly start ageing; in a few years' time, it will start shrinking.

you must have positive qualities, for a negative , shrinking, apologizing , roundabout man is despised. You must believe in yourself.

MMC still faces a struggle amid a shrinking home market and a tarnished image in the all-important US market.

The radical shrinking of Allende's bloated state was a way to avoid sharing patronage, and thus power, with the armed forces.

Its population is aging and its workforce shrinking. In trade and diplomacy, it faces new pressures from a rising China.

This implies a gradual shrinking of the relative size of its current-account surplus.

Many studies suggest, though, that the Himalayan glaciers have been shrinking over the past few decades.

The overall trade deficit is expected to continue shrinking, as the economic slump leads to lower demand for imported goods.

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Meanwhile, the area controlled by the Afghan government is shrinking to the fortified islands of the cities.

Many are worried about the long-term viability of BlackBerry given its shrinking market share.