The broader measure of Retail Sales showed a contraction of 0.5% and Import Prices declined dramatically by 1.3%.
From the late 1940s through the late 1970s, when global temperatures cooled, rainfall in the Sahel declined dramatically.
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The number of hijackings has declined dramatically, thanks to international maritime patrols and the arming of guards on ships.
He says export industries are doing "quite well", though the importance of sales to other euro countries has declined dramatically.
Owing in large part to changes in these risk factors, heart disease rates have declined dramatically over the past 50 years.
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Would you have guessed that the number of people hitting the donut hole declined dramatically between 2007 and 2009, confounding the experts?
Java is used in web browsers to allow web developers to provide extra functionality, although its use has declined dramatically in recent years.
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That fact helps explain why, as more and more shopping has moved online over the past ten years, sales tax revenue has declined dramatically.
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But the numbers of elephants have declined dramatically in recent decades.
But their numbers have declined dramatically in North America, where a fungal disease called white nose syndrome is estimated to have killed more than 5.5 million.
The idea of the car as an apps platform is still burning bright but confidence in the ability of car companies to generate secondary revenues through apps has declined dramatically.
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As a result of education initiatives and marketing and age restrictions, smoking has declined dramatically over time -- despite its legality for adults -- in one of the greatest public health success stories of the last generation.
In a statement to FORBES, SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami argued that the task force was no longer needed because accounting expertise exists throughout the agency, and the number and severity of earnings restatements (a flag for possible accounting fraud) has declined dramatically since the mid-2000s.
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Interestingly, uninsured hospital visits dramatically declined, and people began to get preventative health care.
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In fact, ozone levels have declined even as production has dramatically increased in the Barnett shale.
Even as movements like Occupy Wall Street show how dramatically trust in business has declined.
Although Calaceto declined to disclose how much Chase invested in its PKI, he says the costs have decreased dramatically since the bank started researching secure signatures in 1996.
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