After finishing 2001 without a Grand Slam for the first time in almost a decade, Sampras' career appeared to be in steep decline this year.

BBC: Pete Sampras

Rocked in recent years by sex-abuse scandals and crises in leadership, the Catholic Church in the Republic was found to be in steep decline in an Aug. 7 survey about the proportion of Irish people describing themselves as religious.

FORBES: Abortion Law Decisions Coming to Catholic Ireland

While we expect gross margins (for both pharma and diagnostics) to decline going forward due to a change in product mix and pricing pressure, the decline may not be as steep as we had earlier anticipated and so we have slightly revised our gross margin expectation.

FORBES: Roche's Worth $58 On Continued Growth And Strong Pipeline

"We know in this marketplace with previous launches that there can be a rapid uptake followed by a steep decline, " Ian Read, Pfizer's head of worldwide marketing, told analysts.

FORBES: Magazine Article