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He said he could not afford to pay all his workers because of declining orders.

Declining GDP would not, in itself, be much of a worry, provided that output per person continued to rise.

He said he would join me sled-length in declining to yield.

The declining literacy of our society has been a major concern of educators for a while now, and yet things are not getting better.

Even in her declining years, whenever she would speak of it, her eyes would light up.

Prince Philip is, I believe, well-known for declining compliments of any kind. But throughout he has been a constant strength and guide.

Average selling prices (ASPs) for DRAMs continued to be under competitive pressure, declining by nearly 14 percent sequentially.

There was even a slight increase in purchases of home furniture, which had four consecutive years of declining sales.

Annual inflation in the U. S. is likely to turn negative for at least several months next year, on declining energy and food prices.

These two developments slot nicely into the narrative of declining US power and will no doubt be used to illustrate that very phenomenon.

Local residents feel abandoned by the party, leading to declining membership in election support groups, he said.

The main victim of this trend is not so much the newspaper (although it is certainly declining) as the conventional news package.

Already it is declining and their frustration is showing as they hit out as a last desperate attempt to hold on to it.

After declining the post of Secretary of State, he took the role of advisor to the President.

The country, a declining communist industrial power when he took control, fell into abject poverty under his rule.

Many US dailies face uncertain futures, battered by quickly declining ad revenue in the age of the Internet and a teetering economy.

But Intel is squeezing more profit out of every sales dollar today even as Microsoft's profit share keeps declining.

The suspicion must be that this law is designed to defend a declining regime rather than to bolster the security of Venezuelans.

But, just as a thriving population of butterflies is the sign of a healthy ecosystem, a declining one is a sign of trouble.

The value of the peso had been declining precipitously, undermining Mexico's ability to borrow money or to repay existing debts.

Japan is currently facing something of an existential crisis. has grown very slowly for more than a decade, and its population is declining.

Obama said he plans to be at the debate Friday, declining to take up the challenge.

Just as the housing bubble papered over the troubles of the middle class, it also hid, for a time, the declining prospects of many men.

Yet, in Berlin, health officials said the rate of new illnesses is declining.

This may seem like an oxymoron as the economy is declining as more humans upon the mainland go into fear and cease to travel to the islands.

Results: The BMD of every part measured of the women had a continuously declining trend. The score of kidney vacuity increased in each year.

He added that state and local governments might have to cut back spending as a result of declining tax revenue.

While transmission seems to be declining in Yei town, the outbreak in Juba town is expected to increase in the coming days.

And after three consecutive years of declining sales, the hot dog makers and their suppliers began to panic.

About the declining man we question thee, Gotama. We have come to ask the Blessed One: What is the cause of his downfall?

"I think there's been a strong impact on costs as a result of the declining value of the dollar, " he said.

Many analysts predict that China's vast labor force will begin declining in the next year or two, the result of family-planning policies.

For all the anxiety the declining dollar drew from China this week (see article), it has no serious rival as the world's reserve currency.

With net credit losses declining further, the bank declared that it had "turned the corner" , but remained cautious about its outlook.

Did not you hear him complain of the rheumatism? and is not that the commonest infirmity of declining life?

"People have no confidence in the current government, " he said, accusing it of corruption, which had led to declining living standards.

But a declining population is going to have at least two very beneficial economic effects.

"We don't know exactly why students' emotional health is declining, " he said. "But it seems the economy could be a lot of it. "

His declining health would soon cause him to give up the reins of leadership he had held for so long.

Even though the number of working farms is declining, Michigan is still one of the nation's leading agricultural states.

The data document a reduction in the total number of new cancer cases and declining cancer death rates in the United States.

Indeed, the OECD found a "consistent tendency" for greater volumes of index-fund trading to sit alongside declining volatility.

"We'd rather take the risk, " he said, adding that the dollar "is declining all the time, so the risk is minimal. "

If the female skin is not yellow in general, there can be a function of the body is declining.

"Public morals are declining day by day. " Such is the correct exposure of the dark side of our society.

Statistics of the national Institute on Drug Abuse indicate that the glut is not the result of declining use.

Beijing and Washington must not waste this opportunity to put the triangular Taiwan Strait relationship on a path of declining tension.

For Yahoo, the partnership would bring an influx of cash at a time of declining revenue in its search business.

The banking sector remains remarkably strong, despite declining profits at a time of increasing competition.

A recession is popularly defined as two or more consecutive quarters of negative economic growth, or declining output.

Also, it is not simply a question of the Fed declining to bail out financial speculators who took on excessive risk.

Noah shunned the Bucks by declining offers to work out for the team before the draft, and was selected by the Bulls at No.

The company, whose sales have been declining, needs to get its new smartphones on the market for the holiday selling season, they added.

Giving up the right to marry could be the last straw for a church that is already battling against declining interest.

Yet amid all that, 2007 is the year that domestic paper supply approached balance in the face of declining demand.

It does not know quite what part to play in a world in which the West is declining and "the rest" are rising.

As for me, the declining of traditional , technology and methods is not a bad thing; ; it is the natural result of progress of society.

US imports have been declining and Japan is likely to see overall negative import growth this year.

For one thing, the commitment to those very British civil liberties seems to be declining fast.

What change would you expect to see in a world that has declining levels of boredom and therefore declining creativity?

He said Japan should join hands with China to secure farm products as the nation's food self-sufficiency ratio has been declining.

Europe is making progress in its struggle against the deadly E-coli outbreak, with the rate of new cases steadily declining.

At this point, Jay Alan Zimmerman is declining surgical treatment while he waits for a cure.

A robot also knows when to leave me alone, so I don't have to risk hurting its feelings by declining its advances.

As for me, the declining of traditional technology and method is not a bad thing; it is the natural result of progress of society.

It also found that the bank branch was declining in importance as more customers chose to transact online or by telephone.

Furthermore, due to declining sales, the last edition of the Australian edition of Playboy published was the January 2000 issue.

James Yong of Macquarie Bank says that this has led to declining American gasoline output from oil refineries since 2005.

So a majority of firms are still seeing their capacity utilization flat or declining, though the size of that majority is somewhat smaller.

If not, the declining unions of the developed world may begin to look jealously at the achievements of their less privileged equivalents.

This was done to prevent core inflation, which had already fallen below 1%, from declining any further.

If it is serious about recovery, the United States must balance the budget, stimulate private saving, and embrace a declining dollar.

Declining remittances and a tightening of micro-finance lending would further restrict the funds available to women to run their households.

Wagoner has been criticized for his handling of G. M. 's declining fortunes, but he has said he intends to stay on.

The general said, when traffic hours, high on the head, with the increase in traffic on the lift gradually declining.

Japan, with a rapidly aging population and a declining birth rate, is grappling with a severe shortage of working obstetricians .

Hopes for growth in the U. S. , where same-store sales have been declining for more than two years, are dim.

Rising unemployment and declining profits further depress demand, leading to a feedback loop with a very unhappy ending.

For the U. S. in particular, given the short-term nature of much of its debt, declining yields have a big effect.

It was also indicated that over the past two years, European agriculture suffered droughts and total output of raw silk was declining.

A federal state with a declining population embedded in democratic alliances is unlikely to be a threat.

But Tuesday, the Anglo-Dutch company would commit to that growth only for the next three years, declining to forecast beyond then.

For a start the influence of the United States is declining in a region it once called its "backyard" .

Analysts note that referral revenue is declining as an overall slice of the business. But it still makes up a big piece of profit.

The bottom line for Beijing is that it does not want a declining euro any more than it wants rapid yuan appreciation against the dollar.

A salesman said in such a commercial declining phase, educational facility's retail had a tendency to decrease.

The unlocking of inner sources of strength will be crucial for China if it is to grow robustly in the face of declining global demand.

But the alternative is a declining UN in a messy, interconnected world. That would not be easy either.

Industrial waste and sewage, agricultural pollution and shipping discharges were to blame for the river's declining health, experts said.

Overall, he said, flu cases have been declining in the city in recent weeks.

Japan is declining, China is rising -- it would take a visionary and a prophet to get these nations integrated.

T. Boone Pickens backed off of his much ballyhooed mega-wind project in Texas this week, citing the declining cost of natural gas.

He does a pretty hard day's work for a man that's supposed to be in his declining years.

Publishers, meantime, are losing one of their biggest customers as they struggle with declining demand for physical books.

Specific bird species may also be declining due to predators that are taking over their homes, nests, and harming their eggs and babies.

With a declining economy, low consumer confidence, and rising inflation, retailers across the island are taking a hit.

Already bruised by declining investment, the latest growth and inflation projections have been downgraded across the continent.

Though the rate of increase is declining, inertia means the total will go on rising until 2050, when the population will reach 9 billion.

Would we rather the Bank accommodated declining GDP? Or try to stimulate it?

Credit Suisse spokesman Marc Dosch said a ``small number'' of traders had been suspended, declining to provide their names.

Indeed, they threaten only to fall once demand in the rest of the world falls as fast as it appears to be declining in the US.

having been asked to his birthday party , i cannot help declining your invitation.

But it is unlikely that Yahoo would be interested in a deal right now, sources added, due to AOL's declining revenue.

Declining woodiness structure housetop, declining berth, give a person the appreciate that has no before and pleasure.

You do not have to be an American declining to imagine it is about to take a big step back.

McDonald's plans to franchise more over the next three to five years, Mr. Fenton said, declining to give specific targets.

Instead, executives are focusing on their existing markets, even if they happen to be in the "declining" economies of the Old World.

Economists estimate the U. S. trade deficit edged up to $27. 5 billion from $27 billion in June, due largely to declining aircraft exports.

For the reasons outlined in my method of operation, our best years relative to the Dow are likely to be in declining or static markets.

Declining-balance method will result in the greatest depreciation charge when applied to an asset in its first yeas .

The real problem, he said, was declining investment in oil production, which if anything had worsened in recent months.

These signs of declining consumption are troubling for Asian companies that have geared exports to the U. S. Consumer .

Down the road, a Democratic campaigner, declining to be named, found it hard to hide his despondency.

But while a further 15 per cent decline may be inevitable, there is nothing to stop prices declining even further.

Declining birthrates and a rapidly aging society threaten to sap the country of its greatest economic asset: human labor.

In addition, newly-issued credit debt coupon rate is gradually declining, credit debt also continued to rise on the overall space.

The biodiversity showed that there was a declining trend with the increase of rubber forest's age.

But companies won't ratchet up investment in a time of declining demand.

The fact that work is considered as a declining value, also in the health sector, corresponds to specific economic and societal phenomena.

He said she had been in declining health since breaking her hip two years ago.

Overtime hours worked continued to fall by double digits, declining 40 per cent year-on-year in the manufacturing sector.

He refused to acquaint me with his reasons for declining my offer.

A weakening dollar is not uncommon in an environment where the global cycle is showing positive but declining growth.

Mo-tse educational thought was ignored with its declining, and the reason of its declining is worthy of thinking.

But a declining share of the vote for the National Front could undermine Mr Abdullah's authority and derail his economic reforms.

Writes Sharon Begley of Newsweek, that boom-and-bust cycle has not been seen for several years, and the number of lemmings is declining.

The skill with which policymakers handle a declining dollar is another cause for concern.

While declining to disclose specific sales figures, both Nike and Adidas say that the products with Chinese themes have been selling well.

A bigger problem at Beida that Professor Pan identified was the declining number of students from the countryside.

The GDP is declining at the most severe rate since the SecondWorld War and rapidly nearing levels of the Great Depression.

The speech was a further disappointment for global stockmarkets, which have been declining fairly steadily since early May.

and the other is called "Bear Market" , which refers to the stock markets with continual-declining stock price.

However, shares in Shell fell in early trade as investors focused instead on the company's declining production trend.

More to the point, just when Egypt's oil output started declining, two lucky things happened.

But the market seems unlikely to produce substantial revenue quickly enough to replace declining print income.

Of course, property prices would be very low and declining also.

However, the tragic destiny of these officials reflected the situation that the bachelor politics was declining gradually.

Looks like the iPod gravy train is finally slowing, and from here on in, we'll see declining year-on-year sales of Apple's key gadget.

For Chrysler, the bankruptcy filing and Fiat pact represent a chance to end years of losses and declining market share.

It was the fifth-straight week of declining usage in this closely watched barometer of gasoline consumption.

Residential investment in the first quarter also tumbled 38%, but home building appears to have stopped declining by the end of the quarter.

The main indexes in Europe extended losses from the previous day - declining more than one percent as the trading day closed.

Google is unlikely to want to pay such a high price again, given MySpace's declining popularity and disappointing advertising revenues.

She'll be jumping in her 'Barbie Pink Bus' to head on tour in the near future, the spokeswoman said, declining to disclose further details.

And if you're in an area where the population is stagnant, declining, or aging, the numbers may be working against you.

With a few exceptions (see article) local newspapers are declining quickly.

The price of its shares has fallen by more than half since they took control due to declining revenues and concerns about its debt.

As a consequence, although exports are declining, Chinese production capacity is declining at a slower pace than Chinese consumption.

Teenage pregnancy is still too common, but it has been declining, with the odd hiccup, for ages.

An increase in the market price of a discounted bond resulting from an approaching maturity date, rather than from declining interest rates.

S. public opinion survey public-opinion surveys show the decillion supports declining support for the war in Afghanistan.

An ageing population and a declining birth rate constitute a serious problem for the domestic employment market.

Capital Securities' Ms. Lin said she wouldn't rule out a quick rebound for some of Monday's declining stocks in the coming sessions.

The company will also have to grapple with declining Hummer sales and tighter fuel efficiency standards, both in the U. S. and in China.

But it certainly doesn't seem to be declining.

"We are already in exploratory talks, " she said, declining to elaborate.

Google is unlikely to want to pay such a high price again, given that declining traffic and thus disappointing advertising revenues.

Clinical manifestations of the eyeball can be pain, congestive, photophobia , and tears with declining eyesight.

Despite a huge upsurge in cellphone use over the past two decades, brain cancer rates in the United States have been declining.

With escalating costs, declining availability, and mixed quality outcomes, employers have been hurt by the absence of sound national policy.

Finalizing regulatory approvals has taken additional time, the spokesperson said, declining to provide further details.

After a period in which it seemed to be a declining force religion is once again a decid- ing factor in world affairs.

Economic activity continues to weaken, with declining confidence, and an appreciating currency lowering export competitiveness.

AFP mobilised the anger of people who found their conditions of life declining, and channelled it into a campaign to make them worse.

The commission had already "killed" a Chinese-language version of the Xinhua news story, the official said, declining to elaborate.

Yields had been declining in Germany as institutional investors already are ditching the IOUs of just about every other European country.

China has one of the world's highest rates of traffic deaths, though fatalities have been declining in recent years.

Temasek confirmed its participation in Standard Chartered's share sale in a statement yesterday, declining further comment for this report.

declining-balance method of depreciation often is called double-declining-balance (or 2%-declining balance).

Perhaps the result of plague against which ancient medicine could do little made the Romans concerned by their declining population.

With declining sales and tightened credit, some firms might collapse in the next couple of months, he wrote.

The Pew Research Centre notes in a recent report that enrolment rates have been rising and participation rates declining for decades now.

It shows the index declining steadily from a peak in early 2009, with just a brief pause during the summer of 2010.

Speaking on the overall circumstance, I think the trend of my fellow countrymen's declining health appears to be exaggerated.

Youth will be gone never to return . And it will be too late for you to go into scholarship when in your declining years .

In course of the Turkish empire declining rapidly, the great powers of Europe started to scramble for the empire's heritage.

China's January refined copper imports were 41 percent more than a year earlier, even after declining 15 percent from December.

In times of trouble, social instability and declining moral values in society, only men of character will be able to survive.

But very often, it is described as if people are going into default because of the declining value of properties.

Indeed, voters who can be swayed by appeals to cultural and racial fear are a declining share of the electorate.

Most of them had continued to work with their hands even as demand for manual labor was declining.

As resources were released from declining activities they would be immediately absorbed into expanding industries.

The index was very weak last week, and fluctuated around the support. Furthermore, it was weak that the volume incresed whilst declining.

Razzie performers opened the show with a video segment showing a number of real Hollywood stars declining to host the event.

But analysts believe that North Korean arms exports have been declining for some time in the face of increased international scrutiny.

Mondi also blamed rising energy costs, declining demand and a slowing economy for the potential closure.

Credit quality "across many loan classes has begun to deteriorate with declining house prices and slowing economic growth" .

So it is as well that the rate of decline is itself declining.

College Board officials noted that the declining scores can be attributed, in part, to a larger and more diverse test-taking population.

Far from declining as the policymakers have predicted, inflation has proved hard to beat.

If we look at the bigger trend on a year-over-year basis, Chinese exports relative to imports have actually been declining.

The second factor in declining income inequality is better-targeted social policies, especially cash-transfer schemes for the poor.

However, to boost the share of consumption, you first need to understand why it has been declining.

The surge in prices for these commodities stems from years of declining production.

It then soared briefly around the time President Obama was inaugurated, before declining again.

This problem is aggravated by the fact that the productivity of Russian oil assets is declining rapidly.

Further trend gains could follow in the coming years amid reviving American growth and a declining U. S. current account deficit.

For the U. S. , it is a more welcome development and might also help counteract declining prices.

So the blips you see today in declining investment or more foreign outward investment, all these can be resolved. .

Amid all this spending, there is surprisingly little evidence of declining capital efficiency.

Amid its massive bond-buying program, a fiery debt debate in Washington, and a declining dollar, people simply don't trust the Fed.

The economists attributed the mistakes of the young to inexperience, but those of older adults to declining decision-making abilities.

Every few days, somebody writes something about Internet Explorer's declining marketshare.

Within two decades Chinese population could be very old and declining.

In a gloomy era of declining newspaper readership, The Philadelphia Inquirer went hog wild over an uptick in its circulation.

This reflects the general trend of declining interest in Symbian among handset makers.

Declining real wages and a modest upswing in productivity have together produced a sustained drop in unit labour costs.

'We have relatively low and declining inventories and a refining sector that's finding it hard to get the crude it needs. '

The US trade deficit is declining dramatically, from more than $700bn in 2006 to about half that this year.

That PCI gradually weakens Marxist-Leninist ideology also leads to its sliding to the declining abyss.

"If there is a continuation of declining investment in the upstream sector, in a few years' time we may have major difficulties. "

Ben Zhang said, declining to let the contestants be interviewed.

"The drought and declining water tables are going to have an increasing impact on oil and gas production in Texas, " Glassman said.

However, due to modern state political corruption, closed-door policy has led to declining national strength.

Still, bat populations have been declining rapidly for years, due to rampant disease and human encroachment on their habitats.

But Putin did far better than survive; within four months a declining Yeltsin asked Putin to take over as acting President.

Then, the share of emerging-world imports that came from rich countries had been on a steadily declining path.

European bond markets also rallied in May, with yields generally lower across the curve on declining US bonds and weaker economic data.

despite , devote Despite his declining state of health, he sitll devoted himself to his work.

Electricity prices brought about by declining profitability, it should be digested by the power companies themselves.

The oil price has risen more than stock markets since March, to US$60 per barrel, even though demand is still declining.

There is already growing evidence, on the basis of ongoing research, that some crop yields are declining on account of climate change.

France's PSA Peugeot Citroen, whose sales are largely dependent on Europe's declining market, has warned it may report a second-half loss.

In reality, the declining significance of the US-UK partnership has nothing to do with personalities.

In the last few years, religion [in the Netherlands] is declining, and a lot of churches are abandoned.

FOR a president facing a weak economy and declining popularity, a centuries-old murder mystery could prove a useful distraction.

The declining line at the bottom ofthe figure shows U. S. official reserve assets, primarily gold, falling to about $12 billion.

Remember that declining trade deficits can be expansionary for the economy in the same way as increased government spending.

Nevertheless, China's trade surplus has declined further due to surging import volumes and declining terms of trade.

Perhaps the moment I shut our eyes, gradually declining pyrotechnics.

Its chief commercial use up to 1970 was in the manufacture of acetone, but this application has been declining in recent years.

The ratio of current account surplus to GDP, after a notable reduction in 2009, has been declining since the beginning of 2010.

A nationalist tendency is evident in attitudes to the rest of the world, too: friendliness towards America and western Europe is declining.

But analysts also warn, investors should not be blindly optimistic, as there's always the possibility of declining gold prices.

Improving acid washing recipe and declining courting intensity are the main measures to reducing the weight-loss.

However, due to the impacts of modernization and globalization, that people nowadays involve in community affairs seems declining.

The mass effect of the stampede to liquidate increased the value of each dollar owed, relative to the value of declining asset holdings.

Lu Xun was born in a declining feudal family, so he show sympathy to the peasant class which were oppressed by the landlord class.

Nutrients as a whole in the food supply are declining, Hansen says, citing another reason not to lump 1958 studies with more current ones.

The U. K. is currently in discussions with Mr. Koussa, the spokesman said, declining to offer further comment.

To reach its ambitious targets, the United Nations needs reform and reinvigoration . Otherwise, it risks declining credibility.

The results showed that the populations of vegetable aphids in cabbage were in declining trend in the temporal sequence.

The Goldwater Institute points to a third poison to add to rising prices and declining productivity: administrative bloat.

Traffic-analysis firms have consistently reported Google 's traffic to be declining from its early peak.

How did he "escape" from an inexorably declining business into a completely new field?

That's the question raised by a thought-provoking study, 'The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness, ' released last month.

And corporate profits, which usually make a handsome contribution to the incomes of the rich, are declining steeply.

That is a pretty sizable ticket for a company with a falling share price, a declining market share and an untested product line.

Welfare rolls in a few big states, Michigan and New Jersey among them, still are declining.

The U. S. seafood industry has been declining for a number of years now, according to Thang of Boat People SOS.