And between the decline of free agency and their newfound fiscal restraint, their riches don't carry quite as much weight as they used to.
Betsey Stevenson, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and former chief economist at the U.S. Labor Department, said that for some women, greater career ambition means less free time and a decline in overall happiness.
It makes for unhappy but realistic reading for the US economy and it provides a starting point for a fantasy-free policy response to American decline as well as for the British.
Then, each year after implementing smoking bans (at least for the first three years, the longest period studied), smoke-free communities have an average 26 percent decline in heart attacks, compared with those areas that still allow smokers to light up in public places.
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After users continued to decline and SWTOR went almost entirely free to play, to most, including EA apparently, that was the final straw that indicated the title was indeed a failure.
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Public support for free trade has been withering for a decade, tracking the decline in middle-class American manufacturing jobs.
Much of this decline is due to the high demand for tax free munis by individual investors in high tax states as well as generally, given the pending tax rate rises in 2011.
"There are two things the critics decline to acknowledge: that Google is providing a simple, free service, and that all Google products start out underwhelming and gradually expand, " Devin Coldewey wrote for TechCrunch.
Free-range production now looks to have the potential to reverse the sharp decline in local egg production.
The scale of Spanish sales decline and line disconnections paints a picture of an economy in a free fall.
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Support for the capitalist and enterprise-friendly Free Democrat party shrunk to 2.7% of the vote, a 7% decline from the last election that cost the party their seats in the state parliament.
This essay is adapted from his new book, "Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline and the Rise of a New Economy, " which will be published Tuesday by the Free Press.
But even if Employee Free Choice becomes law, it is unlikely on its own to indicate any long-term reversal in the decline of unionism, reckons Richard Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago who opposes the bill.
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