The eurozone is stuck in recession and the ECB says it will shrink 0.5 percent this year, though it predicts a gradual recovery later year.
The government now reckons that the economy will grow by only 0.5% this year, and that it will shrink next year by 1% before recovering in 2000.
While the tax itself will of course raise some revenue, its impact on GDP will be to shrink it, meaning that there will be less income from other taxes.
Its aggressive posture during the attempted takeover suggest it will not shrink from this fight.
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The 17-nation zone contracted in Q4, and it will probably shrink this quarter as well.
They say that the EU and IMF strategy is flawed, that it will only shrink the economy further.
They point out that it will shrink the EU economy.
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The wonks who understand such things have pointed out that it will shrink the economy by 2% or so, thus meaning that there will be less tax revenue, not more, as a result of the new tax.
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And while Intel said it will start selling a new processor design, dubbed Nehalem, in the fourth quarter of this year, AMD countered that it will shrink the size of the transistors on its existing server chips by the fourth quarter to match Intel's.
"This is good for the government as the value of its debt will shrink immensely, but it will be miserable for the Japanese people as the value of their savings will erode, " said Mr Fujimaki.
Here are three places, however, where Samsung has changed the game and will tempt Apple to shrink back into it shell.
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The UK SITS (Software and IT Services) market will continue to shrink somewhat throughout the remainder of 2011 and into 2012, according to the valuable newsletter, TechMarketView.
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Once the European economy recovers which in theory it should the deficits will shrink.
If oil firms stop searching for new sites, it is likely that domestic production will shrink over the next few years as the present wells dry up.
Even with that bailout, it is predicted that the Cypriot economy will shrink by 8.7% this year.
In an era of bear markets and little of the lucrative mergers-and-acquisitions activity that sustained banks in the late 1990s, it seems likely that research departments will continue to shrink.
As it continues to shrink, the Marines will work to preserve the most critical parts of the service, including quick-reaction forces, updated fighter planes, and a renewed focus on the Asia-Pacific region, Gen.
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Even without the buffeting Britain will receive from storms in the global economy which will prompt a frantic search for growth, and could yet force Mr Osborne to reconsider the pacing of his plans to shrink the budget deficit it will be a turbulent year.
First, it will lead to higher content acquisition costs causing margins to shrink.
"If you put salty water on onion skin the cells will shrink, if you put too much water on it the cells will swell, " he says.
If Obamacare makes it through the Senate, American small businesses will continue to shrink their payrolls to avoid the awful choice of paying higher health care insurance premiums or the 8% added payroll tax.
It was announced today that the Greek economy this year will shrink by 5% - the fith year of recession.
Paraguay will be the only country to shrink, by 2%, it predicted.
But rather than complain about his tortured celebrity on an album that will enhance his status further, maybe he should save it for a shrink.
This makes it hard to say how fast the summer ice cover will continue to shrink.
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As fracking expands domestic oil and gas production, it likely will reduce U.S. demand for energy imports and shrink our trade deficit.
Cut charges on one side and it will raise them on the other, chasing customers away and making the business shrink.
It is likely that as companies find ways to cut spending, retirement plans will shrink even more.
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