"It's honestly very, very difficult to come up with," Mr. Muir acknowledged, declining to even offer an estimate of adventure travel spending.
While the Fed did not change its language on inflation, which it described as "likely to be subdued for some time," it acknowledged declining prices for things like energy and other commodities.
Several candidates, including executives of Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and Chicago Symphony, and the executive and artistic director of the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, have acknowledged declining a job offer or an invitation to pursue one.
Standard-setters worry that auditors would be quick to recognise rises but slow to acknowledge declines.
Mr. Shaw acknowledged the decline in ratings for the broadcast networks, but emphasized what they could still deliver.
Paul Giordano, X.L.'s general counsel, acknowledged the decline in premium revenue reported by the company's new American subsidiary.
Mr. Sinn acknowledged a decline in the current state of the manufacturing and construction sectors, but said the wholesaling and retailing climate had improved.
Like executives from the Fox network, Mr. Graboff acknowledged the decline in "Idol" this season, pointing to the competition from similar singing shows, "The Voice" on NBC and "The X Factor" on Fox.
Four years ago, the Government acknowledged the decline in school sport that had taken place during the 1980s and 1990s by launching a new national strategy, backed by £1.5bn of taxpayers' and Lottery money.
Iran's veneer of stoicism toward the Western sanctions that have disrupted its economy showed some new strains on Monday, as the deputy oil minister acknowledged a decline in domestic petroleum production because of dwindling foreign investment, and four-year-old talks between the Iranians and Poland's biggest natural gas developer collapsed.
It is universally acknowledged that declining forest cover triggers ecological problems like changes in global climate, habitat degradation and unprecedented species extinction (Goldsmith 1998).
