Alas, his work there is now forgotten, and he spent his declining years batting out profiles of show-business celebrities like Mel Brooks and Johnny Carson for the New Yorker, a sad way for so spectacularly gifted a writer to go out.
And it gave you eight years of declining crime and eight years of declining violence.
Meanwhile, revenue from voice calls, which take up far less bandwidth than, say, watching a YouTube clip, has been declining for years.
Saudis had cited the lack of qualified female athletes, and conservative opinion in the kingdom, in declining for years to field a woman.
Regardless of the economic dip, however, several career paths have been declining for years due to larger structural changes in the economy.
Hong Kong's tailoring industry has been declining for years, shipped over the border and with many of its best practitioners left behind by the digital age.
The company suffered a dismal top-line performance, with same-store sales declining five years in a row before turning up, ever so slightly, so far in 2010.
Demand for estate planning has actually been declining for years.
While it is true that the volume of mail has been declining for years now, the biggest issues currently facing the Postal Service have more to do with political incompetence than technological disruption.
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Since 1992 when interest rates peaked, rates have spent 28 years declining to just about zero.
And yet, divorce rates among this exact group have been declining for 30 years.
And although a lot of our marriages fail, divorce rates have actually been declining in recent years.
So weak and overleveraged have been Korean corporations that the shareholders equity of many has been declining consistently for years.
The U.S. carbonated soft drinks market, which comprises most of the North American market, has been declining in recent years.
He said pollinators were vital but populations had been declining for 30 years, with the trend set to continue without prompt action.
Production by state oil company PDVSA has been declining in recent years, for example, owing to what many see as ineffective government management.
As a result, the percentage of passengers opting for additional land tours outside the ship's schedule has been flat or declining for several years.
's four major U.K. newspaper titles, the others being the Sun, the Times and Sunday Times, but its circulation has been declining in recent years.
Deaths from twisters have been declining in recent years because of improved forecasts and increased awareness by people living in tornado-prone areas, especially in smaller and rural communities.
"Politicians there are now blaming them for 20 years of declining education standards, " he said.
The authors noted that women (and men) showed declining happiness during the years studied.
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Two consecutive years of declining stockmarkets have already increased the pressure on companies' own pension funds.
His performance on the field has fallen off dramatically with five straight years of declining slugging percentages.
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Sears, mired in years of declining sales, has closed 68 of its Sears department stores since 2009.
In this plan utilities received permits for their existing emissions but faced steadily declining caps over the years.
After years of declining raw-material prices, clothes firms such as Gap announced profit warnings and saw their shares whacked.
Steven Pinker, in The Better Angels of Our Nature, recently pointed out that violence has been declining steadily for 500 years.
Coming off four consecutive losing seasons and four straight years of declining attendance, the Mets traded reigning NL Cy Young winner R.
The brick and mortar electronics retailer has been in a steady decline for the last several years, declining 71% since April 2010.
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