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With its major rival acquiring so many modern vessels, Chile wanted to respond as early as February 1906, but the country's naval plans were delayed by a financial depression in 1907 brought on by a drastic fall in the nitrate market and by a major earthquake in 1908.

The potential deal also represents one of the latest examples of foreign companies looking to scoop up European businesses because of a drastic fall in asset prices caused by the Continent's economic problems.

Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Egypt has experienced a drastic fall in both foreign investment and tourism revenues, followed by a 60% drop in foreign exchange reserves, a 3% drop in growth, and a rapid devaluation of the Egyptian pound.

In the Soviet Union, the first Five-Year Plan (1928 32), implemented by Joseph Stalin, concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods.

Reduced funding from the centre and a drastic fall in construction taxes and land sales have cut local-government income by an average of 15%.

The push to boost numbers came at the cost of a drastic fall in quality.

His suggestion comes against the backdrop of a drastic fall in the number of university applications from men.

Now that foreign investment in the developing world has slowed to a trickle, trade has shrunk, commodity prices have fallen, and remittances sent home by immigrants in richer countries are declining sharply, Watkins asked how poor and middle-income countries could avoid a drastic fall in already meager or subsistence living standards.

A drastic fall in the price of oil, Ecuador's largest export, which provides over a third of government revenues, has not helped.

Auburn turned to Gus Malzahn to restore a program that made a drastic fall two years after winning the national title.

The Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development said the Reserve Bank should hold off on further cuts or else risk a drastic fall in property value.