Whenever I hear politicians lament the decline of unions in America, I think back to that Faneuil Hall fistfight and recall: The victim was just trying to pack up his own booth!
Bradford, after correctly identifying the problem of population decline, does not point (as far as I know) to a reversal of the decline as a potential solution, nor do any of the economists the Times reach to talk about his findings.
There have, since then, been some discussions (most notably by Technologizer and MG Siegler himself) about the seeming decline in the quality of some of the comments -- but I'm going to leave that aside for the moment, and talk about the larger issue in all of this that interests me far more.
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When not closely tracking a worrying decline in the production of obscenities at TechCrunch I'm working to find out more about Peter Diamandis' asteroid mining plans.
Mr. JERRY YANG (CEO, Yahoo): As we saw the online ad market decline in the third quarter, I decided that Yahoo needed to accelerate the process of becoming more efficient and competitive.
Like many writers, I worry about the decline of reading in an era of digital devices that whittle away our attention span.
While I would love to point to the decline in the stock price since the offering as evidence that the market is cognizant of value, I think it is more the consequence of momentum investors, disappointed in their inability to make money from the promised IPO pop, heading for the exits.
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Due to a three-month drop in the median price of a single-family home as well as a continued decline of long-term interest rates (i.e. mortgage rates), the affordability of a single-family home has spiked back up to a level only briefly seen at the tail end of the financial crisis.
More generally there has been a decline, as I indicated, in the mission of public education.
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"I could not decline, I was worried about the fate of the country, " he told parliament on Monday, to loud applause.
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The slow recovery of business starts from the recession could be exacerbated by the long-run decline in business formation I mentioned earlier.
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There are a number of economic and social reasons for the decline in worker satisfaction, and I will not attempt to discuss them all here.
"I am very concerned the continuous decline in overall number of ships, " Sen.
The Select Sector SPDR Health Care ( XLV) has been one of my favorite sectors since early in 2011, but I was also surprised by the severity of the summer decline.
Years of imbalance between creative ideals and financial realities, personal problems amongst the label operators, an unwillingness to compromise our aesthetic standards, a tendency towards releasing challenging (i.e. unmarketable) artists, and the steady decline of the music industry in general, are amongst the chief reasons for our inability to continue.
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Mr. KAGAN: No, I don't, and I think, you know, that the current craze for the decline of America is tremendously overstated.
We expect DVDs mailed per subscriber to decline to about 5 per month by the end of Trefis forecast period as a result of (i) the on-going shift to lower cost plans (ii) increasing usage of streamed TV shows and films as a substitute for mailed DVDs.
"The market is saying Myriad Genetics is going to go into some type of decline, which I think is unlikely, " says Stephens analyst Scott Gleason.
"While it's true that the biotech sector has sold off recently, I can find no news coming out of the announcement that justifies this decline, " says Kliff.
When I was growing up, the kind of people who today are lamenting the decline of physical books in the face of e-reading were busy bemoaning the decline of independent bookstores in the face of ruthless national chains.
When I hear some of these folks in the other party talk about a nation in decline, they are dead wrong.
They eventually determined that there was a relationship between the proportion of negative tweets like "Bruno movie is probably the worst I ever seen" and the decline in revenue from Friday to Saturday.
Although I knew my heart was in non-profits, when I was offered the opportunity to be a part of Microsoft it was too tempting to decline.
America, as I found from my visits in the seventies and early eighties, had suffered a terrible decline of confidence in its role in the world.
I'm glad Jason raised the relationship between declining business formation and the credit market, because I'm skeptical that the recent decline he notes is driven primarily by changes in the supply of credit.
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