The laggard first-quartile companies, which reported that sales shrank on average by 3.4% a year over the period, included such problem children as 7-Eleven, Unisys and Owens-Illinois.
As the four-year anniversary since the economy last shrank approaches, we should focus on its subpar growth.
FORBES: The Worst Four Years Of GDP Growth In History: Yes, We Should Be Worried
In the first three months of the year, while Britain's economy shrank by 4.9% on an annualised basis, the contraction in Germany was 6.7%.
In the last quarter of 2009 year-on-year GDP shrank by 0.8%.
ECONOMIST: A row over alleged election fraud has paralysed Albania
The territory's first-quarter GDP shrank by 7.8% year-on-year.
But the ONS said the revision would have no significant impact on fourth-quarter GDP, which shrank by 0.3%.
Since their boots shrank when they dried, troopers had to keep them on at night.
On an annual basis, Spain's economy shrank 2% in the quarter - the worst fall since the end of 2011.
Figures released on August 14th show that the euro-area economy shrank in the second quarter (see article).
In the East Village, La Salle Academy was on the verge of closing in 2009 after its enrollment shrank to 360 from a high of about 900 during the 1960s.
While I was watching live or recorded shows on the iPad, I could tap anywhere else on the screen and the show that was playing automatically shrank and dropped down into the bottom right corner of the screen.
Vanity Fair's James Wolcott, writing recently on the glories of 1970s New York, noted that the population shrank by 10% over the decade.
The clash at prime minister's questions on 25 January 2012 came as official figures showed the British economy shrank by 0.2% at the end of last year.
Also on Thursday, the Labor Department said that the number of people seeking unemployment benefits shrank by 22, 000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 344, 000.
Spending last year on housing, the biggest expense for most Americans, continued to rise, but shrank as a proportion of overall spending for the first time in three years.
The homebuilding industry shrank again, but at a slower rate than in previous quarters, and the dampening effect on the economy was partly offset by a big increase in the construction of commercial buildings.
The British economy shrank by 0.4% in the second quarter, according to a final estimate, an improvement on the 0.7% fall in GDP recorded in a first estimate.
By his count, on average the gap between where stock prices began and where Applied Finance figured they should be shrank 15% to 30% a year from 1998 to 2005.
Last year a University of Calgary trial found that people on overnight dialysis (with traditional machines) needed fewer hypertension drugs and their thickened heart muscles shrank, according to the results in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
应用推荐