The ECB also said it sees inflation in the EU declining for the next two years.
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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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The authors noted that women (and men) showed declining happiness during the years studied.
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As a result of the conflict and fires, forests have been declining considerably in the past 40 years.
In what sounds like something from another era, the Energy Information Administration forecast declining gasoline prices for the next few years.
"One of the main reasons bumble bees have been declining over the last 70, 80 years has been changes in the landscape, " explains Dawn Ewing, outreach manager of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.
The discoveries and the investment decision will help India's top crude producer arrest a trend of declining output over the past five years as most of its producing fields are ageing, apart from boosting earnings.
In this plan utilities received permits for their existing emissions but faced steadily declining caps over the years.
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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Saudis had cited the lack of qualified female athletes, and conservative opinion in the kingdom, in declining for years to field a woman.
The great irony of the entire NBA labor and financial discussion is that league demand has been tremendous in the last few years despite declining profits.
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Federal spending on goods and services everything the government does other than pay interest on its debt and transfer money from one person to another has actually been declining for the past two years.
At the top end, Stanford, which is a private university, and Berkeley, which is not, continue to produce fine students, but enrolment in public universities and colleges has been declining in the past few years.
Finally, why did the programme not point out that in fact world wide the trade in wild-caught reptiles and amphibians has been steadily declining over the past 3 or 4 years.
U.S. gross domestic product fell for the first time in three and a half years in the fourth quarter, declining by an annualized 0.1%, new Commerce Department figures show.
Uniquely in world cricket, Australian captains almost never play on after resigning the captaincy, and it's a sign of the times that, despite his 37 years and declining form, Ponting has stayed in the team.
The Gap has suffered from declining same-store sales for years, verging on the death-spiral.
Regardless of the economic dip, however, several career paths have been declining for years due to larger structural changes in the economy.
Any other sports league might be envious of the NFL attendance figures over the past few years, despite declining numbers.
Perhaps the most worrying consequence of the past two years is that declining revenues have forced oil companies to cut their exploration budgets.
Forecasts of over 4 percent growth and declining inflation over the next two years have helped Turkey focused funds compile a seven week inflow streak while Russia equity funds posted inflows for only the second time in the past 15 weeks as oil prices climbed.
Participation in the festival has declined in recent years due to migration, declining interest in Qiang heritage among the young and the impact of outside cultures, but the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that destroyed many of the Qiang villages and devastated the region put the New Year festival at grave risk.
Failure to access the potential of these services will doom these partners to stagnant or declining revenue streams over the next five to seven years.
The middle class has been struggling now for about a decade -- 10 years in which folks felt the sting of stagnant incomes and sluggish job growth and declining economic security, as well as at least eight years in which there was a profound animosity towards the notion of unions.
He wrote that less than half of the urgently required maintenance will be completed over the next five years, leaving council buildings in a declining condition and jeopardising future service delivery for the public.
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In the last four years Egypt has seen massive rises in unemployment, declining growth and the value of the national currency nearly halved.
The declining prices for solar panels in recent years have helped to make them more attractive.
Granted, declining interest rates over the past 10 years contributed to market conditions that were conducive to positive bond performance.
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The effect of longer life spans on pension obligations has been dwarfed by the impact of declining interest rates over recent years.
This comes on the heels of three straight years of declining revenues.
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