The UN said last week that opium-poppy production has begun to rise again in Myanmar after six years of sharp declines.
Then there were the piles of four-page inserts that the Philadelphia Inquirer brought to the confab, which boasted of its success in ending three straight years of sharp declines in average daily circulation by growing circulation an exceedingly modest 2, 136 daily papers during the previous six months.
Boarding may never actually become trendy, least of all the full-time sort, but advocates of the system hope that innovation will at least arrest the sharp decline of recent years.
Cancellations and delays to projects during the past couple of years have created a sharp drop in projects in the pipeline and collapsing order books for UK construction companies.
We now expect upgrade volumes and device subsidies to decline after years of steady growth, driving a sharp improvement in margins.
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Other finds include the bone comb once used by an image conscious lough dweller and a metal blade which is still sharp after hundreds of years.
The sharp growth in recent years of donor-advised funds, through financial services organizations such as Fidelity and Vanguard, have made it easier, moreover, for those of relatively modest means to set aside tax-advantaged money for such purposes.
Judge Shani Barnes praised officers who finally caught Reid, but reserved sharp criticism for the "years of inadequate work" that had allowed him to elude capture for so long.
"We've put in a lot of pivots in the last five years for people that never did have it before, " said Elton Sharp of Sharp Irrigation Systems in Georgia.
But these jottings have a second purpose: They're diary entries of sorts, bringing into sharp focus travel memories that might otherwise fade under the weight of years.
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Some bond investors are fretting that the overhang of bank reserves created by the central bank's policy over the past couple of years could in due course result in a sharp jump in inflation.
Miss West returned to Martha's Vineyard in 1947, where she lived amid her own sort of people for the next 50 years and wrote two sharp and wise novels about them.
Ninety years old and still sharp as a tack, his tales of self-induced disasters are worth recalling as we live through yet another.
After six years of expansion Britain's rollercoaster economy is heading for a sharp dip in growth, perhaps even a recession by next year.
"During the past 65 years, sharp 10% declines that occurred over the course of a four-week period, like the one that the market has just experienced, were typically bullish, " says Leeb.
Fifty years on, Palmer's memories of his eventual triumph are still sharp.
In recent years the stewardship of large public-pension asset pools has come under sharp fire amid revelations of undisclosed "pay-to-play" and conflicts of interest.
Another study by Ben Broadbent, an economist at Goldman Sachs, suggests that consumers in the euro zone have also benefited much less from the outsourcing of production to low-cost countries than have consumers in America or Britain, who have enjoyed a sharp decline in the price of clothes in recent years.
Claims for such injuries have soared in recent years despite improvements in vehicle safety and a sharp reduction in the number of reported accidents involving personal injury.
Further, in developing this camera module, Sharp applied high-density mounting technology nurtured over long years of experience in camera module development to achieve a compact form.
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When he last met her, about three years ago, she was still sharp when it came to remembering details of her time in office, Dale said, although her dementia affected her grasp of what was happening in the present.
Despite the sharp appreciation in the value of Arsenal over the past few years, Kroenke and Usmanov, neither of whom would speak with FORBES, know the Gunners still have a lot of unrealized financial firepower.
However, in order to take advantage of the sharp increase in iron ore prices in the past few years, miners decided to move to a quarterly contract system, whereby the contracts would be priced based on the average price in the preceding quarter.
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"There's been 15 years of computers doing everything perfectly and locking everything together and making it all sound very sharp and designed, " he says.
Some 57 years later he wistfully remembered the regret at leaving the eternal snows of the Jungfrau and the sharp outline of the pyramid-shaped Silberhorn peak against the dark blue of the sky.
Last December, with stocks way down from their highs but well above current levels, I wrote that stocks seemed like a reasonable long-term bet for someone with a time horizon of six to seven years who wasn't using borrowed money and could ride out a possible sharp decline.
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The changes Mr. Elop will detail at Friday's meeting underscore a sharp reversal of fortune as the market dominance the company has built over the past 20 years quickly crumbles.
The chemicals industry has historically operated under high levels of market competition and regulatory scrutiny with the result that chemicals companies typically have for many years maintained a sharp focus on operational risk.
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