United Airlines, the country's largest airline, extended the scheduled length of all its flights this summer after it experienced a steep decline in on-time performance.
Along with the major decline in on-ice success and the new use of the Forum, there are other symbolic signs of deterioration here.
Lucchino even managed to connect this narrative of waywardness back to the baseball diamond, noting that last year's team-wide decline in on-base percentage to its lowest level since 1992 reflected the franchise's deviation from its blue-collar roots.
When Rodriguez signed his 10-year, $275 million deal, he had not yet been revealed as a former steroid user, had not yet undergone a hip operation, had not yet begun his annual decline in on-base percentage plus slugging.
The move would help Marriott make up for the revenue it has lost over the last few decades from a sharp decline in on-demand movie rentals and phone calls made from guest rooms.
For several months in late 2013 and early 2014, the limited enforcement of toilet repossession from delinquent clients caused a decline in on-time payment rates.
The impact of the universal screening and decolonisation on the MRSA burden was immediate: there was a sharp decline in on-admission colonisation prevalence from a peak at 3.59% in Q3, 2007 to less than 1% by Q4, 2010, while the number of patients screened remained stable at just over 15,000/quarter.
The Boxing Day sales also suffered, with a 12.6% year-on-year decline in footfall on the high street.
We observed that the presence of diabetic retinopathy at baseline predicted greater decline in performance on the DSST and, more marginally, on the MMSE.
A small decline in scores on cognitive tests may have no bearing on whether patients will progress to serious disease.
Poor outcome was associated with a decline in performance on visuo-spatial tasks and a failure to improve on frontal temporal tasks during the follow-up period.
