In the same light, when screening large numbers of people who may not be at risk, there is an increased risk of false positives, which leads to emotional and financial distress and erosion of the patient-physician relationship.
Thus, the financial cost of erosion per hectare per year varied from US$20 to $50 on arable land and from US$10 to $80 on grazing lands.
But it's the erosion of financial independence that is the most serious issue.
The big change ahead in his life, he said, is not a financial one, but the erosion of his personal time.
There are only two, and both are familiar liberal targets: the rise of a deregulated financial sector and the erosion of accountability in compensating top executives outside finance.
The analysts cited "a gradual erosion of financial flexibility that has occurred in recent years, coupled with the system's rising debt levels".
Hoping to determine how companies might foresee a stall, our team spent considerable time looking at various financial metrics, from margin erosion to patterns in R&D spending.
"There's been some erosion in financial performance, but the uncertainty and sentiment in the marketplace has also had a meaningful effect," said the bank's controller, Thomas E. Panther.
Pew reported in December that a clear majority of American adults no longer live in the middle class, a demographic reality shaped by decades of widening inequality, declining industry and the erosion of financial stability and family-wage jobs.
"We're seeing companies ask how much substance they need to stay here and keep below the radar," says a lawyer.Moreover, the erosion of financial secrecy has had a less wrenching impact than predicted.
