"We have a number of growing businesses, but we have a number of declining businesses.
Nicholas Weber, a special-education teacher who has been in the Absent Teacher Reserve for three years after losing his job at Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers because of declining enrollment, said he thought the policy would motivate principals to give bad ratings to teachers so as to not have to hire them permanently.
David H. Koch, the billionaire industrialist who combined his vast wealth and libertarian-tinged brand of conservatism to influence candidates and campaigns at all levels of American politics, is stepping away from his political and business interests because of declining health, his company announced Tuesday.
The student-operated Chicago Weekly News, which was forced to close in October , 2002 because of declining advertising revenues, is back in business, thanks to a first-of-its-kind partnership with a newsweekly published by two Chicago alumni.
The paper business is expected to improve in part because of declining inventories and less vigorous foreign competition.
SILVERJET TROUBLE Silverjet, the start-up British all-business-class airline, said that trading in its shares was suspended on Friday because of declining cash.
The music business has suffered years of declining revenues.
Referring to the recently re ported decline in first‐quarter earnings, Mr. Sulzberger said advertising linage had declined because of "general business conditions" while expenses had increased because of higher wage and newsprint costs.
Beyond the obvious destruction, the blast delivered a deep psychic blow to the business district, which was already going through some difficulty because of the declining economy.
A17 BUSINESS DAY C1-14 confidence SplungedDampened Consumer confinence plungeDecemberember, with affluent families most pessimistic because of declines in the stock market, the University of Michigan's Consumer Research Center said.
