The relative decline in optimism that we have seen during the past few weeks was reversed.
Basic industries that soak up labour, such as textiles and leathers, are in relative decline.
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As for populations that aren't expanding, New York State has been in a relative decline for decades.
With farming's relative decline, the small towns that served farmers are dying too.
Its citizens are growing ever more conscious of their country's rise and of a perceived relative decline in American power.
It was this relative decline that Thatcher was able to turn into a catch up by the UK against its peers.
Those that resist change can look forward to years of relative decline.
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The problem though is that nobody outside of the USA is looking for caveats when they observe the relative decline of American power.
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This reflects an underlying improvement in Britain's economic performance over the past two decades, after relative decline during most of the post-war era.
In fact, because of the utility of BT, banner ads may surpass search ads in revenues by 2015 after many years of relative decline.
Bollettieri also believes the worldwide growth of tennis with many more countries now producing top-ranked players is responsible for the relative decline in U.S. standards.
To head off such relative decline, Germany needs to re-engineer not only the welfare state but its attitudes towards immigrants, women and people over 60.
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The relative decline of the central bank has accelerated of late.
However, Mr Baldwin fails to find either this expected relative decline or the trade diversion it would have generated from the three countries that stayed out.
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The relative decline in real wages is greatly unfavorable to the less educated, particularly those without four year college degrees, a group that comprises 70% of all Americans.
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The biggest fear on Wall Street is that finance, which accounted for a staggering 40% of corporate profits at the height of the credit bubble, faces decades of relative decline.
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The question for the future, one that no historian can answer, is whether the relative decline of America means that the dreams of individual Americans will need to be downsized too.
Celtic are also having to cut their cloth according to the relative decline of Scottish football, which will be a theme you might see running through the annual meeting on 14 October.
He is 71, and could take the view that he has nothing to lose by attacking the immobilismo of politics that lies behind the relative decline of the Italian economy (see article).
After decades of relative economic decline and population loss, the north has a problem unimaginable in most of the south: too much old housing.
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It is equally striking that British relative economic decline seems to have stopped, and may actually be being reversed even, as the author observes, in parts of manufacturing.
The whole point of the system is that the price of food should decline relative to other prices.
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Undeniably, the recent stock market slump has also affected these companies, but Penang is not "in decline" relative to the rest of the nation.
Even if decline in relative power is inevitable, it has such economic influence and military might that it will look and feel strong for decades to come.
Losing talent and watching cash decline in relative terms, it's my guess that Gates and Ballmer decided enough was enough--it's time to go to war against these troublesome dot-coms.
For those targeting domestic consumers, the rethink should be even more radical as demand for sports shoes, edgy fashions and electronic gadgets may start to decline in relative and, eventually, absolute terms.
Earlier this week, Times Higher Education ran a big story on the apparent decline in the relative economic returns to university education.
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