At the same time, a sharp decline in the Japanese currency has also helped lift profits.
Wall Street is itchy to believe this scenario: a sharp decline and then a sharp recovery.
In America , war jitters and rising fuel costs contributed to a sharp decline in consumer confidence.
Prestwick Airport has suffered a sharp decline in passenger numbers this winter, down by 40% in recent months.
Retail sales also crept up in July, reversing a sharp decline in June.
The sessions gave clues to the final provisions of the bill, which added to a sharp decline in financial shares.
Consumers are putting jugs of tap water into their refrigerators, and Pepsi notes a sharp decline in bottled water sales.
For one thing, the number of citizen-initiatives on the ballot, 61, represents a sharp decline from the peak of 102 in 1994.
One of the main reasons was a sharp decline in new export orders, with manufacturers blaming slacker demand in Europe and China.
The biggest cause of the 0.1% contraction in the U.S. economy was a sharp decline in government spending, chiefly in the defense space.
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The tournament was supposed to reverse a sharp decline in West Indian cricket, which had devastated the grass roots of the sport within the region.
However, financial services saw a sharp decline between October and December.
Natchez has seen a sharp decline in tourists in recent years.
Many have become (perhaps excessively) risk averse, as is also reflected in a sharp decline in corporate investment even as their productivity, exports and profits soar.
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The next day after Ms Stewart sold her stock, the US Government declined to review an ImClone cancer-fighting drug, sending the stock price to a sharp decline.
Big music companies like Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony-BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group are already experiencing a sharp decline in sales of compact discs.
This has created a sharp decline in the country's reserves.
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But what figures there are point to a sharp decline.
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Asus' PC shipments fell nearly 9 percent to 5.1 million units in the first quarter, admittedly a sharp decline, but far less than the industry's overall 12.7 percent fall.
Premium brand Ballantine's recorded stable sales figures, with strong results in Eastern Europe and Latin America countered by a sharp decline in Spain "in a very difficult Scotch category".
"As a result of adverse publicity from the poultry supply situation in mid-December, China KFC sales experienced a sharp decline, " David Novak, chief executive of Yum said in a statement.
Analysts expect a burst of business activity in the fourth quarter as companies add to their inventories, followed by a sharp decline in buying during the first three months of 2000.
McCain's fortunes also rebounded as U.S. commanders in Iraq credited the 2007 launch of a campaign to pacify Baghdad and its surrounding provinces with a sharp decline in American and Iraqi casualties.
While there has been a sharp decline in the yen's value, analysts say it is a by-product of the monetary stance that Japan's government has taken to stoke inflation and boost its growth.
"This month's retreat was driven primarily by a sharp decline in expectations, although consumers were also more pessimistic in their assessment of current conditions, " said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board's economic indicators.
We have already seen a sharp decline in the ratio of workers to retirees, yet even people who follow the economy and economic policy closely, like Klein, were apparently not even aware of this fact.
According to the TorrentFreak news website, Google added TPB to its list towards the beginning of August, leading to a sharp decline in the amount of search results it displayed for the file-sharing site.
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Meanwhile, there has been a sharp decline in the Japanese yen, which has dipped almost 20% against the US dollar since November last year, triggered by an aggressive monetary policy stance by the new Japanese government.
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