In Ireland, where venal politicians granted tax breaks to home builders, joblessness rests in the mid-teens and the landscape is littered forlornly with unoccupied, pretentious homes in decay with no takers.
Yet without it, not only the energy industry, but also domestic aviation, railways, public buildings and other legacies of the Soviet Union's industrialisation will decay with increasing speed, putting the bits of Russian industry that are trying to modernise at even more of a competitive disadvantage than the one that they face already.
Spalted wood is wood that has been infiltrated by "waves" of decay, with each wave leaving a uniquely outlined stain-zone line.
The conclusion was the same for drug discovery after the mid-19980s: an exponential decay curve with a slope indicating we were discovering approximately 1 fewer new drugs per year.
Some of the city's formerly upscale villas and apartments languish in not-so-genteel decay, crowded with multiple families that moved in after the revolution.
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There is also the daily decay you experience with buying options.
So he has produced a fascinating, idea-packed book that sets forth five stages of corporate decay, along with some thoughts about how to get back on track.
They will always have to contend with decay heat.
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This huge cultural heritage site, became increasingly threatened with decay by exposure to harsh climatic conditions, floods from the Indus River, deterioration due to salts rising from the high water-table, and water-logging.
The city has long been synonymous with urban decay.
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As the bacteria responsible for the tooth decay are sealed in, and deprived of nutrients, the act of sealing the decaying tooth with the metal cap should prevent the decay from spreading, at least until the baby tooth is shed at around 10 years of age.
The American Dental Association says on its Web site that "chewing sugarless gum for 20 minutes following meals can help prevent tooth decay" and recommends looking for gum with its ADA-approved seal.
Detroit could be the city to buck this trend, with its well-documented urban decay, its abundant broken windows.
These skills decay without constant refreshers and over-compensation with process and systems.
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Was this fluctuation real, or was it merely a glitch in the equipment used to measure the decay, induced by the change of seasons, with the accompanying changes in temperature and humidity?
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Public and private funding has not been available to stop many of the country's greatest Victorian buildings, and with them many relevant institutions, falling into decay and disrepair.
Decay, caused when the sugar in food and drink reacts with bacteria in plaque, attacks the areas between or on top of teeth.
Finally, Applied slaps a decay factor on each company's earnings that it calculates with variables like firm size and the magnitude of the economic margin.
Tooth decay and gum disease are major public health problems, associated with poor digestion, heart attacks, strokes and cancers, stemming from inflammation and subsequent infections.
With the weakened foundations of Social Security and the decay of the corporate pension plan, we as employers need to step up and promote better investing and retirement planning for our workers.
And now, four years after Reynolds planted the first illegal seed, a grassroots guerrilla gardening movement has sprouted up around him, with thousands of revolutionaries throughout the world who are armed and ready with rakes and shovels to turn areas of urban decay into springy patches of peonies and sunflowers.
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The physical decay is evident and these areas suffer all the social problems associated with inner-city poverty.
The use case supposition is probably that the user will accessorize with a bluetooth headset, although the natural bluetooth headset usability decay curve means that it will eventually be abandoned for a wired headset or the speaker.
Neighbourhoods such as Parkhead and Shettleston are more desolate, with rows of once-grand Edwardian houses crumbling in picturesque decay, and empty lots and derelict shops a stone's throw from city-centre streets that boast the highest rents in Scotland.
With gouges and large holes, the trees are more susceptible to decay and disease.
Right now preserving livers for transplant involves cooling them with an ice cold liquid, which slows cell metabolism and minimizes decay.
If there is a gigantic mountain with 5, 000 km height, 50% of this mountain would not respond to radioactive decay.
Although solar panels will work on spacecraft at that distance, the desire for sufficient energy to drive many instruments means any mission would really need to go with radioisotope thermal generators (RTGs) - solid state electrical generators powered by the heat of radioactive decay.
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