On the other hand you can make a case that oil demand might decline sharply.
If cars were powered by fuel cells, noxious emissions and greenhouse gases would decline sharply.
Record high temperatures are occurring with far greater frequency than in decades past, and crop yields decline sharply in extreme heat.
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The company noted that slow store traffic reflected a lack of new game releases, causing sales of new software and hardware to decline sharply.
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But in an industry that has seen sales decline sharply over the last year, the members of Radiohead might be the only ones taking this lightly.
Existing home sales, new home sales, new construction starts, and home-builder confidence indexes are all rising sharply as unsold inventories and the pace of bank foreclosures decline sharply.
Could oil prices decline sharply at some future date?
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Middle-class personal incomes have risen in each of the last three years (top income earners saw their earnings decline sharply, thanks to busted stock options and the sharp decline of capital gains).
Australia's manufacturing continued to decline in February, but the pace of decline slowed sharply from previous months.
Australia's industrial sector continued to struggle in February, but the pace of decline slowed sharply, offering a ray of hope.
It was the fourth straight year of declining revenue for the AP, but the rate of decline has slowed sharply the last two years.
The bail-out of the last few weeks comes after bonds have already tumbled sharply, a decline that began after investors piled into bonds and bond funds at a near record pace for most of this year.
If average house prices decline nationally, consumer spending would slow sharply.
However, the fees declined sharply in 2009 due to a decline in card income resulting from lower cash advances and lower interchange fees caused by changes in consumption patterns in the recessionary environment.
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Although the Indian Rupee has dipped sharply in recent months, its decline in value appears to be relatively minor when compared with falls of up to 35% per cent in Thailand and Indonesia.
The yen's decline has helped push Japan's stock market sharply higher.
Despite the huge and painful decline in REIT shares during 2007 and 2008, REITs rebounded sharply in 2009 and 2010.
In 2007, energy watchdog Energy Information Administration (EIA) sharply reduced its forecast for oil production in Mexico because of far higher decline rates than anticipated.
Orders for durable goods tend to fluctuate sharply from month to month and economists cautioned against reading too much into one monthly decline.
They know their heavy selling will not only drive the price of Apple shares down sharply on the exchanges, but probably cause the rest of the tech sector to decline, if not the entire market (as often happens when important stocks have big unexpected moves).
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