Mr. Parton, the new chief executive, said today that the company had begun a top-to-bottom review in response to the drastic contraction of new investment in telecommunications equipment worldwide.
Israel's travails pale next to the drastic contraction of the Palestinian economy, where unemployment has quadrupled in the last eight months and trade has almost ceased altogether.
The drastic contraction of supplies of the art from past centuries over the last five decades now threatens the very existence of the auction houses.
In theory, the purchasing power of urban wages increased, but this expansionary effect was stifled by the drastic contraction of agricultural demand for urban commodities (Gatti et al. 2012).
Interestingly, the former scenarios predicted both more drastic expansions and more drastic contractions, as is noticeable in the broader variation in predicted area losses and gains (Figure 2).
Strenuous muscle contractions can cause a drastic reduction in intramuscular pH to −6.5 with accumulation of more than 40 mM lactate [ 6– 8], regardless of cellular buffering capacity.
It's unlikely that Commissioner David Stern would take such a drastic step, but the longer this doomed season continues the more contraction sounds like an act of mercy.
Thymic involution has been evoked to be fundamental as this causes a drastic decrease in naïve T cells and consequently leads to the contraction in diversity of the T-cell repertoire.
BERLIN — Blaming a drastic slump in exports, the German government on Wednesday predicted a 6percentt contraction in its economy this year, and warned that other countries in the euro zone may not be able to stay competitive as the downturn drags on.
This translated into a drastic fall in output, which hit a low point in the fourth quarter of 2008 with a contraction of real GDP of 8.3percentt.
