California had proposed to draw Lake Mead down more than 110 feet in the worst case, a level that could make the shoreline recede as much as two miles in some areas.
As companies cut back, those gains could recede, said Joel Prakken, the chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, a consulting firm in St . Louis
American commanders in Iraq have long described a hope that as Iraqi forces became increasingly able, American troops could recede into a secondary role.
But it's also a phenomenon that could easily recede, as it has many times before after periods of progress: in the early fifties, when television was brand-new; in the seventies, the era of "Roots and Norman Learr; and again in the early nineties, post-Cosby, when black sitcoms thrived.
If so, it could recede, especially if Mr. Obama's poll numbers do so, too.
By then Aspen's prosperity had receded as well.
The cheap currency may recede as an issue.
The forests begin to recede as Route 434 enters Shohola Township.
Religion may have receded as an electoral issue, largely because the economy is so wretched, but it could easily return.
