And healthy trading profits during the first half of the year mean bonus pools are growing, not shrinking.
The venue, the location, the management, the public appetite for contemporary art, a market that is growing not shrinking, all point to a better future.
And yet, despite Rio getting richer, the favelas are not shrinking.
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Alternatively, the church could have broken new ground with less risk by choosing a conservative from another poor region where Catholicism is growing, not shrinking: Africa.
Stronger rises in factory output and the construction sector, together with continued falls in unemployment, could mean national income as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) is not shrinking as quickly as first estimated.
Successors to their line of thinking include Warren Buffett (whose Berkshire Hathaway missed my screen because it is not shrinking its share base) and the cagey folks running Leucadia National Corp. (which is losing money at the moment but has an extraordinary record of book value growth).
And it's not only shrinking-violet city boys and girls who are being treated as delicate flowers.
But it is not about shrinking their business as the field for renewed retail growth is already broad and deep, and may well get broader and deeper as the economy recovers.
In the process, his sweet ballad succeeds not only in shrinking the universe to human size, but also in magnifying the way a tiny gesture of affection can reverberate with a force that's impossible to quantify.
But doctors know virtually nothing about how long such an effect can be maintained - or even whether the tumour can be harmed, and in Diane's case, despite repeated treatments, further scans do not show any shrinking of the tumour - in fact, it grows and spreads.
But the base is not enough, because getting a larger share of a shrinking market is not a winning strategy.
Banking and wool had made Florence envied and admired throughout Renaissance Europe, but their shrinking did not mean that the city slipped out of Europe's consciousness.
Changing the profile of a workforce is almost impossible when a company is shrinking and not expanding - but despite this, Harland's did take steps to improve its appeal to Catholics - and make itself more accessible.
Western Europe's working-age population is already shrinking, though not as fast as Japan's.
Head teachers are not, by nature, shrinking violets and many will no doubt be up for any extra autonomy they can wring out of the system.
Shrinking our cars is not going to solve anything, it just costs lives instead.
In a shrinking world there are not many places like Olymbos left.
So far this retreat has not taken place, despite the shrinking of official appetite for foreign activism since the Somalia mess in 1993.
"The U.S. airline industry is shrinking to a size not seen since the months after the 2001 terror attacks, " the Associated Press reported Saturday.
You could call it a shrinking credit, but not increased tax.
The researchers also saw not only a reduction of hippocampal shrinking in two of the volunteers, but the brain area actually grew by more than 5%.
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That trend is set to continue, not least because the Russian population is shrinking.
In America at least, the ranks of the truly disaffected have been shrinking in recent years, not growing.
It is not so much that construction is now shrinking, so much as that construction remains in a shrunken state.
Companies worry, too: they do not like the idea of their domestic markets shrinking.
In truth, they are not sinecures and average director tenure is actually shrinking.
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Enron's debt is so huge and its assets are shrinking so fast that there may not be any money left over after banks and other larger creditors get paid.
But if a company keeps growing free cash flow and uses part of the cash to keep shrinking the float, why would not such a company outperform an equivalent dividend payer?
Two years ago another Harvard researcher, Tanya Smith, found that by the time we first faced our beetle-browed cousins, their childhoods were not only briefer than ours, they were shrinking possibly an evolutionary "effort" to continue the species by getting to childbearing age sooner.
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