And a sustained war of attrition could quickly bleed their ranks dry.
Student performance can be measured by mastery speed, percent correct, and attrition, which capture how quickly or accurately a student solves the problem and when a student decides to quit.
The attrition rate due to inmates quickly bonding out resulted in the equalization of swabbing rates between these two groups.
Attrition can reduce a payroll fairly quickly, as has happened in Indiana.
The offensive operations that both sides had planned quickly gave way to attrition, to nibbling at the enemy and at enemy positions, to what, by December 1914, Lt. Charles de Gaulle had come to describe as "a war of extermination".
But despite the apparent calm at the front of the pack, the race quickly turned into one of attrition, with nine of the 24 cars that started failing to finish as several accidents and breakdowns brought out the safety car on two occasions.
The battle quickly turned into one of attrition; by mid-October the two Allied divisions had lost nearly 80% of their total combat strength, or roughly 4,500 men, while the Germans had lost close to 3,300.
This is a very young research field, and the process of knowledge attrition seems to be taking place very quickly.
Nonetheless, says Hideyuki Ban, secretary-general of the Citizens Nuclear Information Centre, an anti-nuclear group, no consensus exists on whether an official phase-out should happen quickly, over 20 years by natural attrition, or something in between.
Espirito Santo analyst Sanjay Vidyarthi said: "While management has in place a strategy to reduce the store portfolio from 364 to around 200 over the next three years - replacing them with franchised stores - concerns remain as to whether this can happen quickly enough to offset the underlying attrition to high street sales".
