Schoolteachers are protesting, too, against a rapid decline in the quality of primary and secondary education.
"We are facing a serious decline in the quality of graduates looking to enter the industry, " said David Braben.
So there is a powerful incentive to sell higher-grade but lower-yielding loans, with a subsequent decline in the quality of banks' balance sheets.
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The findings suggest that overall population aging and rising obesity led to a decline in the quality of livers being harvested, and ultimately to an increase in the percentage of unused organs, the researchers write.
We will eventually see a resulting decline in the quality of what has been the best higher-education system in the world, as the people capable of designing a college curriculum and staffing it lose authority over the areas of their professional expertise.
There have, since then, been some discussions (most notably by Technologizer and MG Siegler himself) about the seeming decline in the quality of some of the comments -- but I'm going to leave that aside for the moment, and talk about the larger issue in all of this that interests me far more.
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Other possible causes include hitters muscling themselves up as never before during the off-season, the creation of smaller baseball parks and a general decline in the quality of pitching (every time there is an expansion of the leagues, the theory goes, the pitching talent pool is stretched thin, and batters have a field day, so to speak).
One reason for the rise is the proliferation of smartphones with high-quality cameras and the corresponding decline in data charges.
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The stocks that rise the most in the initial stage of a recovery will usually be those from the sectors that got beaten up the most in the decline and have a speculative quality to them.
In fact, this index included some lesser credit quality companies whose ratings might be suspect in a drastic decline of the European economy.
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Moreover, lower quality copper ore has resulted in a decline in the production levels for the company in the past.
JPMorgan Chase was in similar shape, but its share decline Friday came over concerns about the quality of its earnings.
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After exposing men to 'wet heat' for 30 minutes on alternating days, researchers found a temporary decline in sperm production but did not look at sperm quality before and after the study.
We now add climate change on top of this, and we know that in Sub-Saharan Africa, or in the Indian subcontinent, the projections are that climate change will have such an impact on the volume of food and the quality of that food, that there'll be 50% decline in those areas in agriculture.
With so large a chunk of the economy and medical practice itself in Washington's hands, quality will decline.
For a variety of reasons, these are dark days for journalism, with the public's appetite to hand over money in return for quality reporting apparently in inexorable decline.
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