By Gorbachev's time, the farm population had shrunk to a quarter of its former size; only older workers remained, working perfunctorily on state land or tending their private plots.

在戈尔巴乔夫时期，务农人口数量降至前一时期的四分之一。只有老农们继续劳作，在国有土地上敷衍行事，维护着他们的自留地。

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Michigan, with its long-suffering car industry, was the only state to see its population shrink over the decade, albeit by less than 1%.

密歇根州的汽车工业长期不振，也是过去10年中唯一一个人口下降的州，尽管减少的比例不到1%。

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An experiment conducted in the southern state of Kerala found that a sudden fall in the bee population was caused by towers installed across the state by cellphone companies to increase their network.

在印度南部喀拉拉省进行的实验发现，当地蜜蜂数量突然减少，是行动电话公司为扩大网路在该省各地设立基地台造成的。

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The state-by-state information is not yet complete, but Marc Perry says demographers found a clear trend in population growth.

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"There is no doubt that there was, in fact,a state organized, systematic deportation and massacre of a designated population, defined by their religion and ethnicity,namely the Armenians."

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Mosques were then stratified and ranked by population and state and the number of mosques chosen for each state were determined by the Muslim population ratio among the states.

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They are no keener on a plan to reduce the state prison population by 20, 000 and the number of parolees by a similar number.

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