The moral authority of business diminishes with each passing year, as customers, employees, and average citizens grow increasingly appalled by bad behavior and abundant greed.
Wealth-generating businesses diminished, and tens of thousands of laid-off workers were absorbed by the state to reduce unemployment.
Without them, however, the state's economy would have shrunk by 2.1 percent, or $17.7 billion, as the competitive edge of Texas businesses diminished.
But they say that eliminating lawsuits against businesses diminishes their incentive to try to prevent attacks.
But new roads would most likely attract more settlers and more clear-cutting for farms and businesses, diminishing the area's appeal to tourists.
The chances for gains in the power generation business "are diminished from just a little while ago," the company's chief executive, William F. Hecht, said on a conference call.
Soon after, more than a dozen spas and doctors offices, including surgeons whose liposuction business had diminished, began to offer similar treatments.
"What this says right now is that, at least according to an accounting interpretation, the outlook for earnings in their U.S. business has diminished from where it was," said John Casesa, an industry analyst with the Casesa Shapiro Group.
In countries that restrict a woman's ability to make economic decisions, girls are less likely to finish secondary school and their prospects of running or managing a business are diminished, which is bad economics, says the World Bank.
