Her senior staff also serve on state committees, which has made the company known in Albany, which is another government contracting market.

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What can newspapers do to survive in this contracting market?

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Indeed, the whole British market has been contracting (see chart).

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U.S. equities tumbled Friday as a contracting job market added to the American consumer's woes.

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That sent U.S. equities tumbling as a contracting employment market added to the American consumer's woes (See "Wall Street Woes: Jobs Data Slides").

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The combination of a contracting economy and rising debt levels has driven the market yield on Greek two years notes to near 25% and on its 10-year debt to around 15%.

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Apparently the frequency with which consumers are dining out has been on the rise since mid-2009, presumably since contracting during the worst part of the recession and stock market collapse, and the writers at The Fiscal Times think it may have something to do with cost.

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In a world in which such resources are certainly finite, and possibly contracting, they also have the effect of taking them off a global market upon which the United States is increasingly dependent.

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