The longstanding decline in fertility worldwide has been pushed by powerful economic, social, and cultural forces.
This shift can be seen in the growing forays of the Valley into film and television production through companies such as Netflix and Google's YouTube, as well as in the already longstanding decline of the music industry -- undermined by both legal and illegal forms of music distribution online.
The Jewish population in the New York area grew by 9 percent over the last decade, reversing a longstanding trend of decline, the study found.
A background statement sent to reporters by a Lynch associate on Thursday evening contended that she had thought that the Justice Department and the FBI should continue to abide by a longstanding policy of declining to confirm the existence of ongoing criminal investigations.
speed limit--a longstanding joke!
But perhaps, most notable, Monroe had declined a longstanding household ritual — breakfast brought to her every morning in bed.
Aladdin Plumbing, whose responses from a longstanding Yellow Pages ad have declined, received a favorable rating on Angieslist.com, a home-improvement Web site, after several customers posted unsolicited satisfied reviews.
One reason for the decline may be a longstanding engine displacement tax levied on automobiles by motor size, which appears to have benefited Japanese and European carmakers like Honda, BMW and Volvo.
The budget office repeated a longstanding warning: While annual shortfalls will decline through the decade — presuming the economy recovers — deficits will climb after 2021 to unsupportable levels as the aging population and rising health care costs drive up spending for Medicare and Medicaid.
