Standards, many complain, have also declined in the once formidable violin school, where David Oistrakh, Abram Yampolsky and Leonid Kogan used to teach.
Rowling declined, more than once, an invitation to appear at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
The boy this time was Frank Carson of the Chicago Inter Ocean, a once-respected newspaper that had declined in recent years.
Alas, the Coca-Cola brand is not what it once was-its value has declined 4% annually over the past four years, and the stock has seen a corresponding 9% decline.
Alas, the Coca-Cola brand is not what it once was--its value has declined 4% annually over the past four years, and the stock has seen a corresponding 9% decline.
They cannot actually set a reference price for globally traded crude oil, and what ability they once had to balance the market has declined as traders have become more skeptical that the Kingdom is ready and willing to ramp up its production as much as it says it can.
The crises in various the smaller oil producing nations occurred once oil production and revenues dropped and subsidies declined.
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After an initial surge of negative sentiment following their peak, and now that they have declined further, some analysts are once again turning positive.
Mr Hatch declined to vote for the measure he had once sponsored.
The Yankees declined to make their medical staff available, but players say that once illness strikes, team doctors and trainers treat their charges with the same basic techniques a school nurse would use to treat a class full of sick kids.
It was only when these declined that British identity started to come apart, and Europe to beckon once more.
He counts himself a Catholic, and reminds voters that he once wanted to be a priest, but he is the only Republican candidate who declined to answer an Associated Press survey about church attendance.
He even declined to discuss these issues at meetings of the G7 group of finance ministers, once explaining that everyone knew each other's views so there was little point.
Once again, China and Brazil dominate the list of stocks trading at a discount to their peers, or having declined enough in the last several trading sessions to reduce the cost of acquiring equity in the company.
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