These show, for example, the precipitous decline of Conservative support among the professional and managerial classes.
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None of this is to say that China is on the verge of precipitous decline.
The speed, flexibility and economy of road transport have caused a precipitous decline in rail freight across the world.
For a tribe that had occupied such a vast swath of southern Africa, it had been a precipitous decline.
Returning to our current debacle, physical investment started a sustained and soon-to-be precipitous decline just before mid-year of 2007.
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Last year's precipitous decline in oil and non-fuel commodity prices was both a consequence and a cause of emerging-market woes.
The first innovation was the precipitous decline in the cost of bandwidth.
The stock is probably rebounding from a precipitous decline following its recent earnings report and the big write off regarding the acquisition of Autonomy.
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Other hard hit areas included several in the industrial Midwest, which saw a precipitous decline in manufacturing jobs in 2009, leading to income declines.
The first and last (current) of the three recessions show the precipitous decline in the housing market as the recession begins to take hold.
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Mexican oil production has experienced a precipitous decline, from a level of 3.4 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2004 to a recent 2.55 million bpd.
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Executives from Bear Stearns have said self-interested short-sellers might have contributed to the precipitous decline in Bear Stearns' shares, which, in turn, may have stoked the rumors.
Despite some turbulence, scores remained relatively stable until a precipitous decline began around the middle of the month, perhaps driven by news of the imminent Supreme Court decision.
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"It is significant that net mortgage lending during the month actually stagnated, reflecting the recent precipitous decline in approvals, " said Simon Rubinsohn of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
The result has been a precipitous decline in work.
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On another level, this connects back to the big question that Jay Rosen asked a couple of weeks ago: what is behind the precipitous decline in public trust in the news media?
Unfortunately, at the same time, factors beyond our control have created a perfect storm a precipitous decline in revenue and a tough economy coupled with a credit crisis that makes it extremely difficult to support our debt.
Given the precipitous decline in the Greek financial markets Slightly above 1200, the Athens Exchange is trading close to 80 percent below its 2000 highs the time may be ripe for daring investors to come off the hills and buy Greek stocks again.
In the middle one (1999-2001), the precipitous decline continues or a bottoming out occurs after the overall economy begins to recover, albeit usually in a hesitant manner, and then the market accompanying the crashed sector begins to improve at a faster pace.
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In the options market, which last week predicted a precipitous decline for Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ), Lehman puts (bets the underlying stock price will fall) were triple the number of calls (bets the stock will rise) traded Monday.
The two had presided over both heady success and then precipitous decline of their signature product, the BlackBerry, which had nearly half the world market for smartphones just three years ago, but fell to only 9% in the third quarter of 2011, according to one market research report.
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This precipitous decline in the quantity of Earth science and applications observations from space undertaken by the United States reinforces the conclusion in the decadal survey and its predecessor, the 2005 interim report (NRC, 2005), which declared that the U.S. system of environmental satellites is at risk of collapse.
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