By contrast, Akita's economy and population have both shrunk by about 7percentt in the last decade, and land prices have been dropping for 15 years.
Last week in its Q2 earnings report the company said it made up 56% of its $364 million in revenue, up from 38% in 2010; meanwhile, other revenue categories (premium subscriptions and marketing solutions) have both shrunk in proportion.
All biologists know that shrinking polar ice threatens the survival of polar bears, yet Palin dismisses the entire problem - both the shrinking ice itself and the cause of that shrinking.
At the other end of the spectrum, war-torn Libya and debt-laden Greece will both shrink by around 5-6%.
Updated at 9.30am BST 8.40am BST GERMAN PMI DATA WORSE THAN EXPECTED Economic data just released has shown that Germany's manufacturing and services sectors are both shrinking this month.
Updated at 9.43am BST 9.29am BST EUROZONE HIT BY MANUFACTURING SLUMP The eurozone's manufacturing and services sector both shrank this month as the region's economic downturn deepened.
WASHINGTON — In one of the bleakest assessments yet, economists at the World Bank predicted on Sunday that the global economy and the volume of global trade would both shrink this year for the first time since World War II.
William, meanwhile, seems to both shrink from and exploit his destiny; he has, since his marriage, renovated two homes at vast expense, as if austerity is something he need not even acknowledge with tact.
Electricity consumption and cargo traffic both shrank in the final months of 2008 and in early 2009, implying that China's economy suffered more grievously than the official figures allow.
From Sylvia Nasar's long, detailed biography of Nash, Goldsman has shaped a story about love, intellectual creativity, the closeness of genius to insanity and the benefits of psychiatry (Goldsman's parents are both shrinks), all leading up to that triumph of the human spirit that is director Ron Howard's stock-in-trade.
The same may be true of Germany; but, worryingly, in other ways Germany displays a political and social resistance to structural reform similar to Japan's.America's demographics are more favourable than Japan's, where the population is both shrinking and ageing.
