Though Mr. Allen stepped away from daily duties at Microsoft in the early 1980s, partly because of a deteriorating relationship with Mr. Gates, he remained on the Microsoft board until 2000.
United Technologies said it expected to cut 11,600 jobs, 5percentt of its 223,100 workers worldwide, because of a deteriorating commercial aerospace market.
The case of Radu Rosu, in short, comes at a highly delicate time in U.S.-Rumanian relations, when Rumania is in jeopardy of losing major economic benefits because of a deteriorating record on human rights.
Afghans held at a Pacific island detention camp are skeptical of United Nations plans to review their rejected asylum claims because of a deteriorating security situation in their homeland, a refugee rights group said Thursday.
Josef Ackermann, the chief executive of Deutsche Bank, said the climate for banking was "more difficult than at any time since the end of 2008″ because of a deteriorating economy and financial market turbulence.
But when Andy Murray tearfully announced his impending retirement because of a deteriorating right hip in a pretournament news conference, the Australian Open underwent a jarring mood swing, from the so-called Happy Slam to a major dominated by talk about pain management and the sometimes extraordinary measures required to prolong careers.
See articleOwning a debtKfW, a German development bank, said it was putting aside an extra euro2.3 billion ($3.4 billion) to cover losses at IKB Deutsche Industriebank, in which it holds a 38% stake, because of a deteriorating situation in its exposure to the American subprime-mortgage market.
Fitch said this was because of a "deteriorating near-term economic outlook".
The veteran U.S. Alpine skier underwent four knee surgeries in five years because of a deteriorating patella tendon.
That meant the first-run leader would be skiing 30th in the second run, a position the top skiers didn't like because of a deteriorating course.
