He became a sort of connoisseur of decline, in fact.
Apple seems to offer the Classic as a sort of public service, declining to have those sales transfer over to the newer devices, perhaps out of respect for its legacy.
Some feel there's been an over-saturation of brand extensions, but this sort of decline is also natural for a game that's been around for so long.
"The Barbarian Invasions," a sort of sequel to his earlier "Decline of the American Empire," revisits that film's bedraggled tribe of left-wing Montreal intellectuals, one of whom, Rémy (Rémy Girard), is on his deathbed.
"There's been at the same time a sort of hidden but very sharp decline in coverage of government apart from politics, in terms of what government is doing and regulating, and the impact that will have on segments of the economy.
With that sort of decline, you'd typically expect to see a concomitant rise in use, lead investigator Lloyd Johnston said in an interview.
And they will want to avoid the sort of decline which has seen Liverpool fail to claim a top-flight title since 1990 after they led the way during the 1970s and 1980s.
He warns of a sort of New Age-economic tailspin in which declining confidence crimps technology investments, which depresses productivity growth, which makes such investments even less profitable, and so on.
That sort of decline is not supposed to happen.
