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The economy is still doing extremely well. We're declining, but declining from a high level.

The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.

The habitat has been declining pretty heavily for the last 30 years. We're trying to reverse that as well.

The main thing is we want to increase the amount of kids in the program. The numbers are off; that's why we came in. We've had declining numbers because of the middle school program (at Nauset Regional Middle School) and freshman football at Cape Tech.

A high proportion of contract sales can shield the company from declining spot coal prices.

Although everyone does benefit from lower-priced goods and services, people also care greatly about the chance to be productively employed and the quality of their work. Declining employment opportunities feel real and immediate; the rise in real incomes brought by lower prices does not.

The first appearance is always going to be the most memorable. This one is special because I'm 30 years old and you hear all the negative things about your game declining and at this point you should be breaking down. I still go out and play hard every night and give it my all. I guess the fans recognize that because they put me in the All-Star game.

The key number for the Fed was actually the unemployment rate and it went down and has been declining steadily. Wages continue to rise and the Fed has to continue to raise interest rates. This isn't weak enough to stop them.

For children, uninsured rates appear to be declining over time.

Following the proposed acquisition of Siebel by Oracle many existing Siebel employees may be concerned about their career prospects, ... We want to offer them an alternative to an environment of declining commissions, confused customers and uncertainty around career viability.

The number of students drive the budget. When you start having declining enrollment, it takes a while to filter through before you can start reducing costs.

It's kind of hard to be shocked by the magnitude of these declines when they're declining every single quarter.

It's like a declining balance, like a debit card.

It's always a concern. Declining population can also equate to a declining tax base. It puts a burden on the people who live here.

It's usually at least 30 days between, and I'm not worried. I've heard that at almost every single Slam. That's just the way these things always work. But I haven't heard anything like that (teams declining to go because of it).

As we learned in Economics 101, a declining manufacturing sector is part of the normal process as an economy develops.

education will be a theme in the next presidential election. It's one thing that this country is not doing well enough. Several states are going to be adopting new textbooks. This company has spent a lot of money to prepare, so you're going to go into a period of rising revenues, declining costs and powerful positive profit growth. And it's selling at 13 times forward fourth quarter earnings.

Then we wanted to get in front of the declining (enrollment).

That means a long-lasting declining trend in bank loans is ending.

They (government) had based their projections on inflation declining but inflation is continuously going up.

They are doing whatever it takes to get it done. The employees should be appreciative. Without these moves, their days would be numbered. They would have had a declining cash cow, a non-growth company forever. Now they have a chance to grow. (Management has) transformed it into a new company.

The report clearly disproves the common misconception that women are the only sufferers of fertility issues. With the next generation facing increasing pressure as a result of declining fertility and mortality rates, it's only fair that men accept their responsibility and change their lifestyles now before it's too late.

There's been a declining audience for network TV for a while, People have their own libraries of things they specifically want to see, which competes for TV viewing time. More options is good news for the consumer but bad news for the networks, who are responsible for the most expensive hours of TV produced. It'll be harder and harder to maintain an audience that justifies that business model.

It's a relief that revenues are no longer declining for Clear Channel.

What the current deficit does is make the dollar vulnerable. It means we could see a vicious cycle, where a declining dollar makes U.S. assets less attractive to foreign investors, which weakens our assets further, which puts further pressure on the dollar.

We expect that things are going to slow down, and that slowdown is going to be evident in two ways. One, we are going to see lower sales volume, fewer houses being sold. Secondly, we think the rate of price inflation will be declining fairly dramatically.

It's a decisive moment, ... It's not Chavez's nasty tongue that has earned him Washington's odium. It is his policies. What he stands for is a declining role for the U.S. in Latin America.

This was driven by 'the usual suspects' - accelerating fixed to mobile substitution and declining yields due to competitive price pressures.

They're just trying to cut out a lot of costs, they've got to pay a lot of debt down and that requires a lot of cash. But it's a challenge for them because you've got a lot of big hitters in the digital business with a lot of deep pockets... I think they'll be able to cut a lot out of the infrastructure costs. The business has been declining at a 5 to 10 percent clip. The question is, can you generate enough cash from printing products to cover that loss? It's a big gamble.

They're better able to articulate their strategy than in the past, and the new management talent has contributed to that capability. But there are still some real competitive issues, especially in the computer systems division, where they're facing declining market share. Sun has always been competitive, but we're also seeing a revitalized IBM in the server space. But as long as HP can get its strategy right, then we should see a recovery as things progress.

I asked Joe Frazier earlier this year about Ali's declining state, ... and he replied, with a sense of satisfaction, 'I did that to him.'

The Leading Economic Indicators have been anything but consistent -- flat to declining from July through September, and recovering in October and November.

The markets are trying to put this data in the context of how scared the Fed is by it. It's very difficult to see exactly what the Fed views as a continuation of last year's trend of broadly declining price pressure and what the Fed sees as a substantial decline.

The main reason for women's declining labor-force participation rates over the last four years was the weakness of the labor market. Women did not opt out of the labor force because of the kids.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

Socrates gave as his reason for declining an invitation to the court of Perdiccas, "I have no wish to go down to my grave with ignominy;" implying that he would accept no favor which he could not repay

I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining years saluting strange women and grandfather clocks.