It echoed a broader decline in Asbury Park, a faded seaside resort that recently attracted a team of investors to redevelop its waterfront.
Jon Snow has said he would "defend the BBC to the death", describing the corporation as "pretty good" amid a broader decline in British media.
That is part of a broader decline in global rates that, in recent days, also has sent the yield on 10-year German debt below zero for the first time.
The disappearance of golfers over the past several years is part of a broader decline in outdoor activities — including tennis, swimming, hiking, biking and downhill skiing — according to a number of academic and recreation industry studies.
They outpaced a broader decline in the stock market set off by investors' uncertainty about how the outcome of the presidential election will affect taxes and consumer demand for the types of products Apple sells.
Yet one wonders if they are increasingly the exception, not the rule, and if the passing of Mr Jobs is simply the most prominent example of a broader decline in American entrepreneurship.
