And now, with his increasing tabloid notoriety and declining production, some of the team's executives have concluded he's more a handicap than a help as the team strives for World Series title No. 28.
The rate of return on assets of those firms has been steadily declining and is now one-quarter of what it was in 1965.
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Hospitals are struggling right now with lower admissions and declining growth in reimbursement rates.
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Alas, those fields are now ageing and their reserves rapidly declining.
Canada now has a radically lower national debt, and an unemployment rate that has been steadily declining, now down to 7.4 percent.
Alas, his work there is now forgotten, and he spent his declining years batting out profiles of show-business celebrities like Mel Brooks and Johnny Carson for the New Yorker, a sad way for so spectacularly gifted a writer to go out.
With declining attendance and piles of debt now forcing a moneyball approach, the club and its fans have a re-set.
Mexican production declined a substantial amount last year, and may have leveled off for now, but could certainly resume declining.
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And now we have the ISM Mfg Index shocking economists again by declining to its lowest level in 20 months, falling to just 53.5 in May from 60.4 in April, and the ADP jobs report showing that only 38, 000 new private sector jobs were created in May, down from 177, 000 in April, and in sharp contrast to the consensus forecast that 180, 000 new private sector jobs were created.
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For now, some environmental groups and drillers are waiting and seeing, or politely declining.
The new security-industrial complex will grow, because we need it and because this economic juggernaut will take us down the now familiar tech curve of declining costs.
In a complete reversal of the widely accepted energy paradigms of declining domestic hydrocarbon production, dependence, and shortage, it is now realistic for America not just to feed the world, but to fuel it as well.
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Part one, we're going to export more products, and we're going to outsource fewer jobs. (Applause.) After a decade where manufacturing had been declining, this country has now created over the last two and half years over half a million new manufacturing jobs -- a whole lot of them right here in Ohio.
Bob, a lot of people are moving toward downloading music, and CD sales are declining, so why this move to promote the compact disc now?
There is no explicit population target, but the latest forecasts suggest that numbers will keep growing from about 1.3 billion now to a peak of around 1.46 billion by 2030 and then start declining gently.
It easy to forget when you're standing in the middle of a city of birds - but listening to these sounds now, I can't help remembering that the albatrosses and penguins populations are declining sharply for reasons known and unknown.
In this context, Senator Rockefeller asked the U.S. General Accountability Office to assess the state of the coal industry given the negative externalities that it now faces: a tougher EPA in combination with cheap natural gas prices and declining coal reserves that are harder to dig out in the Appalachian region.
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Now the newspaper industry seems locked into a stately death spiral of declining circulation and aging demographics.
After 20 years of installing and upgrading public computers in their institutions, libraries now report that the use of these computers is declining.
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As Young and a lot of other analysts see it, the movement towards target date funds and other professionally managed options is all for the good, since workers are now more appropriately invested, with the percentage of their equity holdings (and their presumed risk) declining with age.
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However now, with the fuel cells being so fuel efficient in small sizes, and their cost rapidly declining with volume manufacture, we seem to be coming to a tipping point where distributed fuel cell generation may be less expensive than conventional integrated generation, particularly when the cost of transmission and distribution is increasing so rapidly.
Now, with an increased domestic interest in ethanol and the U.S. Department of Agriculture expecting declining exports, the company will also have to contend with competition from freight trains and their easier access to mid-America.
In the face of airline consolidation and declining service, including the cancellation of routes at short notice and interrupted schedules, business aviation is now being seen for what it truly is: a significant tool for growth.
If you're an investor or a business, looking at the real economy in the US, things look pretty good right now (at least if you're at the top, and don't have to worry about declining real wages, or unemployment).
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