The study, which is based on 12, 279 interviews from 2006 to 2010, found a shrinking percentage of women moving in with a man for the first time because of marriage -- 23% in 2012, down from 30% in 2002 and 39% in 1995.

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And while it's true that's shrinking as a percentage of Alpha's business, because we're exporting a lot more coal this year than we have in the past, our domestic steel companies are scrambling to get coal since metallurgical coal comes mostly from underground mining.

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JPMorgan Chase is a good example of shrinking pay as a percentage of profits.

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This raised the debt ratio, arithmetically, by nearly five percentage points, simply by shrinking the denominator.

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But a lot can be said about the fact that countries in southeast Asia to Russia and India are growing percentage wise more than the core markets are shrinking.

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Some firms have moved to prune their plans, by shrinking benefit amounts or lowering caps that limit retiree payments to a certain percentage of profits.

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Though shrinking due to piracy and streaming services, DVD sales generally make up a large percentage of the total gross for a movie studio, and animated films tend to do particularly well in this area.

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The percentage increase, however, was marginally better for women than men, so the gap is shrinking slowly.

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