They are glad that shells are no longer falling on them, but life remains hard.
The good news: Occupancy rates are no longer falling sharply and as just-released quarterly results show, leases that are up for renewal are now flat with prior contracts, much better than the nearly 10% drops seen in the past few years.
And this certainly is consistent with the data in the chart, which show that the poverty rate no longer is falling and instead bumps around between 12 percent and 15 percent.
This is striking evidence, the doves can argue, that falling unemployment no longer leads ineluctably to higher pay and rising inflation.
Lesotho's prime minister has resigned from the political party he has led for 15 years - saying he could no longer stop it from "falling apart".
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But even they can no longer protect their loyal staff from falling profits and sharper foreign competition.
Obie had told him that the fireplace flues were no longer safe, that the chimneys were falling apart in the attic.
Problem is many of the assets on their balance sheets are falling in value and are no longer tradable, forcing a deleveraging that has proven painful and capital intensive.
The school said it made the "difficult" decision after falling pupil figures meant it would no longer be viable.
"The bid team regard Arsenal as one of the great clubs of European football but also one that is no longer punching its weight and is in danger of falling behind, " an unidentified person affiliated with the bid told the Telegraph.
"CD sales have been falling steadily since 2006 and this is no longer the number one income source for songwriters, " said Steve Porter, the chief executive of the Performing Right Society (PRS).
Rodger Holmes, chairman of the Gloucestershire and Herefordshire branch of the IWA said grass around the lock is no longer being cut, there are potholes in the car park and the lock's winding gear is "falling apart".
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On top of the economic distress this causes families struggling to make ends meet on falling real incomes, there is the wider economic consequence: when incomes fall and borrowing is no longer an option, people curb their spending - and with consumer spending accounting for almost 70% of our GDP, when people cut spending the economy stops growing.
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