They've performed very, very sluggishly, in fact a steep fall-off from the Internet boom to where we are now.
There are a number of possible reasons for the fall off, from a seasonal slump to more competition from other mobile platforms.
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It's going to take us through 2009, assuming we don't fall off a cliff from something unforeseen, but then we'll start to recover.
With origins in the 14th century, it is thought to refer to the "off-fall" from the butcher's block, meaning the less desirable parts.
As The New York Times reported last year, profits from high-frequency trading have started to fall, off 74% in 2012 from the peak in 2009.
Flakes continued to fall throughout the night after tapering off from the snow-globe-like flurries that brightened up batting practice.
Watson's relationship with Tiger Woods will come under intense scrutiny, having criticized the 14-time major winner's behavior on and off the course following his fall from grace in 2009.
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As a result, jobless claims appear to be overstated now, but may be understated in the fall, when fewer workers are laid off from a smaller construction industry, which did not hire them in the spring.
Futures are off a bit as European stocks fall from a four month high.
And Jenkins had been laid off from a teaching job that fall, at a high school for troubled teen-agers in Harrisburg.
Seamless North America LLC was spun off from Aramark Corp. last fall.
Chinese exporters were hard hit by the fall-off in foreign demand last year that followed from the global financial crisis.
He said he knows athletes who lose muscle, not fat, when they fall off their exercise regimen, and then are counterintuitively reclassified from overweight to normal weight.
If engineers were held to the same standards, bridges would collapse as often as banks, planes would fall from the sky (if they ever got off the ground), and cyclical blackouts would be a permanent feature of our electrical grid.
It worries that the more Ukraine is shut off from the European Union, the more it will fall behind, economically and politically.
Struggling on the field while making troubling news off it, the Dodgers have been in free fall at the gate, from almost 45, 000 fans a game last season to just over 36, 000 this year.
From the Fall 2007 high, the financial sector as a whole is off about fifty-five percent.
The next time they fall into a disagreement with China, they have to wonder, will China play hardball and cut them off from vital resources?
What travel agents learned from Expedia, Borders learned from Amazon, Tower Records learned from Apple iTunes and Blockbuster learned from Netflix, the traditional game makers are about to learn from free-to-play online video game companies: their business is about to fall off a cliff.
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The programs are facing off for the first time this fall, and each show's audience has fallen at least 20% from the corresponding weeks of its previous season.
Turns out, a good chunk of it resulted from the price spike in the quarter for hard disk drives, which saw a sharp fall-off in supply as as a result of the recent severe flooding in Thailand.
What is so disturbing about fraud on Wall Street is the notion that a devilish character like Bernie Madoff, who stole from the rich, is whisked off to jail, while those who steal from lower to middle class individuals and families tend to fall into a familiar pattern of getting caught, paying fines, skipping jail time and walking away with bonuses worth millions of dollars.
In the 1990s, he moved from traditional skydiving to Base jumping, leaping off fixed objects and using a parachute to break the fall.
There are now a record 22 billionaires, up from 21 last year, but 23 people saw their fortunes fall, and 7 of those fell right off the list.
The greatest example of off-season creep is the NFL, a near-religion which has successfully repositioned itself from a fall-to-winter pastime to a daily relationship, to be attended to constantly.
Hazard's kick and red card is just the latest in series of setbacks following the club's exit from the European Champions League and its dismal league form which has seen the London team fall 11 points off the lead, leaving Chelsea to focus on cup competitions -- the FA Cup and the Europa League.
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