That trade is dying out, in part because traditional copper pots and pans are being replaced by less expensive goods from China.
China's trade surplus with America remains large and controversial, but its current-account surplus with the rest of the world is dying out.
It's a space designed exclusively for the promotion and continuation of Chinese opera, an art form that some believe is dying out but that many others want to revive.
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The research team has discovered that it is much harder for her to feed close to the surface - a possible clue to why her kind is dying out.
Unfortunately for lovers of dust and beautifully over-engineered gear, the room-sized recording console is dying out fast, replaced by software and small, neat, racks of pre-amps and analog summing mixers.
In Momonoura, an oyster-farming village, fishermen whose families have harvested the sea for centuries realise that, tsunami or not, their community is dying out, since young men and women do not want to step into their grandfathers' rubber boots.
Today however, the native Aymara culture, once populous and rich with ancestral tradition, is dying out after 10, 000 years of recorded history, with families moving down from the antiplano in search of jobs and education in bigger towns and cities.
And while many might think that in this world of tweets and texts, the art of poetry is slowly dying out, the truth is that it seems to be on the upswing among young people, Young says partly because of poetry slams and the like, but also due to the Internet.
Though the dialect is in danger of dying out in the next generation, traditional German cuisine promises to live on in the area.
America is dying for new investment capital to build out broadband connections to homes and small offices.
To make matters worse, even if the catch as a whole is stable, certain species are clearly dying out.
He is fired, promoted, rehired and refired, has found a new place to live and is moving out, is moving in and repainting, is in the other room dying and in the kitchen being born.
Its political system is repressive, its economy is riddled with corruption, its population is aging (or, depending on your interpretation, dying out), people drink a lot, the railroads are in bad shape and the roads in worse, and the weather sucks.
We know you just unwrapped this thing and are dying to find out what "Angry Birds" is. (Unless you want to be attached to your tablet for the rest of the year, we recommend holding off on that particular download.) But first, get a case to protect your new gift.
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We remain hopeful that once the 650 is out this problem will get solved (we're dying to find phone that's comparable to HP's h6315 Pocket PC Phone that we can use to make VoIP calls).
That kind of emotional response (check out the Twitter love here) is the kind of thing Hollywood is dying for.
"The difference is you're talking about somebody dead in the vehicle or dying very quickly, or somebody being able to get out of the vehicle themselves, " said David Ward, director general of the London-based FIA Foundation for auto safety, which supports the Euro and Latin NCAP programs.
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