But the fishermen report that the creatures wriggling in their nets are getting smaller and the competition for them more intense.
Wages and salaries, which we track each day in real time, are falling slightly sequentially, mostly because Wall Street players are getting smaller bonuses.
Things are getting smaller, better and a lot is getting invented.
Scanners for electronically storing documents are getting smaller and more affordable.
Over the past 20 years biologists studying this primitive breed, which has not changed much since the Bronze Age, have noticed that the sheep are getting smaller.
Generators, increasingly seen as a home essential, are getting smaller.
The gadgets, too, are getting ever smaller and more portable.
The difference between how actors, musicians and athletes are consumed is getting smaller.
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But it seems that while job cuts on the Street have been brutal over the last couple of years (26, 352 employees were let go in the financial sector in the first half of 2012) the giant pay packages for executives are getting larger or smaller only as the result of ugly losses during the year.
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' is 'cash--and lots of it....' We are a company intent on getting bigger, not smaller.
"With the crowds we are getting at the moment... a smaller stadium will definitely help us, " Bellamy said.
As we know, smaller businesses are still having trouble getting cash from banks.
Families have been getting smaller for decades, so there are proportionately fewer children in developing countries than there used to be.
Marketing is getting a boost too, as smaller companies are finding creative ways of grabbing market share from larger competitors.
And how you respond to each other is going to be probably as important as any speech that a President makes in encouraging the kinds of religious tolerance that I think is so necessary in a world that's getting smaller and smaller, where more and more people of different backgrounds, different races, different ethnicities are interacting and working and learning from each other.
But the industry today is picking up steam by getting construction licenses to build four new units and by getting government funding to develop smaller nuclear reactors that are less expensive and which may be less problematic when it comes to winning regulatory approval.
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Smaller practices, especially those in primary care, are getting swallowed up by large health systems.
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On a smaller scale, some local law enforcement agencies are also having problems getting ammo.
But recently, some smaller developers are having an important influence about what games are about, and are getting some help from a big-name "big brother" to take console games in a different direction.
The filmmakers focus on one day in each year of the epidemic, from 1981 through 1989, and the mournful progress of the decade is expressed by the gaps between the annual episodes: the cast of characters keeps getting smaller, and at the end only the woman and three of the men are left.
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