We have seen economic growth, as opposed to contraction, for quarter after quarter after quarter.
It is certainly fair to expect some near-term contraction in profits especially after coming off decade-high peaks, but I think investors are foolish to expect that contraction to be permanent.
American readers might want to think on this a little more as well: cutting the price paid for medical care under Medicaid and or Medicare is going to lead to a contraction in the supply of those willing to offer medical care under Medicaid and or Medicare.
Bramley and Gateshead, who both dropped out of the league due to a contraction of teams, could make a return to the Premiership later this year.
The first estimate of GDP for the last three months of 2011 showed a contraction of 0.2%, which was later revised to a contraction of 0.3%.
The production sector was revised down from a 1.8% contraction to a 1.9% contraction.
It should be enough to keep the economic contraction down to 4 quarters of misery.
The July reading of 50.9 is forecast to fall to 48.5 marking the first dip in two years to the contraction zone.
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After two days of pacing, his legs gave out and he was reduced to a contraction of limbs, lying in his own waste.
Many of these were due to a contraction of the tech sector in the wake of the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000.
Falling consumer spending and exports contributed to a contraction in the German economy - Europe's largest - in final three months of last year.
The mighty dollar is supported by risk aversion and economic recovery, while the EUR remains vulnerable to Eurozone contraction and rate differentials favoring U.S. Treasury securities.
The credit crunch has finally shown up on the U.S. economy's bottom line--a drop-off in consumer spending led to a contraction in gross-domestic product for the third quarter.
And the measures he's taken have -- working with Congress -- have resulted in, again, over 2 million private sector jobs being created, economic growth as opposed to economic contraction.
Yes, higher interest rates will cause problems for various sectors of the economy, but the ability to inflate other things in response will help raise the demand for money to meet the contraction by the Fed to a level that properly supports the economy.
That led to a contraction of credit, which in turn meant businesses couldn't make payroll or make inventories, which meant that everybody became uncertain about the future of the economy, so people started making decisions accordingly -- reducing investment, initiated layoffs -- which in turn made things worse.
As a consequence, very few HDDs shipped in the last quarter of 2011 leading to an overall contraction in HDD shipments in 2011 (down close to 5% in 2011 from 2010).
Lloyds has tried to minimise the contraction in the provision of vital credit by shrinking what it calls its non-core portfolio of assets - and in the three months to the end of March, it says it increased important lending to small businesses by a net 4%, compared with a contraction in the overall market of 4%.
But it was partly a natural response to a severe contraction (in the Baltics, for example, GDP fell by up to a fifth from peak to trough).
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The reasons are obvious: to combat the super-high yen, to counteract 3.11 disaster-related contraction, to respond to global, particularly European, financial market instability.
It invariably leads to an economic contraction when government decides the negatives outweigh the positives.
To put this fact into context, the entire peak-to-trough contraction in the 2001 recession was 1.3%!
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The Glasgow analysis is that oil and gas production added 0.4% of contraction to the UK economy last year.
Work up to holding the contraction for 10 seconds at a time.
The euro-zone purchasing managers' index rose to a 10-month high in January, though it still points to a slight contraction in business activity.
In political terms, America's contraction to three giant firms Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin (whose merger with Northrop Grumman may be blocked) was remarkably cost-free.
It is expected to produce a contraction of the native European population of between 100 and 150 million - a loss of one-third - by 2050.
Also stoking the selloff was data out of China pointing to the first contraction in the manufacturing sector of the world's second-largest economy in seven months.
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