High-cost cities (mainly on the coasts) had a shrinking information advantage over low-cost cities and towns (mainly in the boonies).
The pressures are only going to increase as CMOs live on a planet rapidly expanding with social and web data they are struggling to explore and CIOs live on a rapidly shrinking planet (budget-wise), but struggling to manage a more demanding and complex IT environment.
No doubt, the year ahead will see a heavier emphasis placed not only on these smaller-sized tabs (hello, potential Galaxy Note 7), but also on shrinking silhouettes and MSRPs.
He also appointed Fred Malek, a prominent Washington fixer and fund-raiser, to head a study on shrinking state government.
Once we get over the glut of shrinking spreads, these stocks will rise based on the new macro-prudential measures the government announced this month.
Optical disc drives take up precious space in our ever-shrinking gadgets, and the ability to stream music or movies on demand has made CDs and DVDs less essential.
During the Goizueta era, Coke spun off its bottling operations into Coca-Cola Enterprises, its 40%-owned subsidiary, shrinking the parent's assets and improving return on investment.
But in a medium hit hard by changing viewer habits and shrinking ad budgets, it's not enough to rely on TV shows--or more pointedly, TV salaries--alone.
The government's ability to sustain the exchange-rate peg depends entirely on its ability to withstand the pain as a shrinking money supply forces interest rates higher and squeezes the local economy.
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Research shows that other drinks thought to be better --fruit juices, teas and energy drinks-- can also have harmful effects on teeth, turning the pearly whites to shrinking, spotted yellows marred with pockmarks.
And, by the way, whether the rules work or not, they'll have an effect on the price and availability of credit - probably raising the price and shrinking the availability, for the period of implementation (at least) and possibly for longer.
Further ahead, Germany has to cope with a shrinking and ageing population, a fast-growing public debt and the need to switch from dependence on exports towards more consumption.
Squeezing more dollars from a shrinking pool of already stretched-to-the-limit FHA mortgage consumers is ill conceived and based on flawed analysis, and the results speak for themselves.
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This year, the number of Indonesians who have embarked on the Haj pilgrimage, after shrinking 65% between 1998 and 1999, is nearly back to pre-Crisis levels.
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