The decline of "set" is the more readily explicable.
With endowment values and charitable gifts likely to decline, the process of setting next year's tuition low enough to keep students coming, but high enough to support operations, is trickier than ever.
No one indulges in "the worrying changes in consumer habits" that the Salon's official literature decried: "the decline of set meal times, particularly outside the home, snacking, the popularity of practical, cheap products".
His elegant, readable book, "The Rise and Decline of Nations," sets out to explain why economies succumb to the "British disease," the kind of stagnation and demoralization that is now sweeping Europe and North America.
When questioned, Lord Strathclyde, Leader of the House of Lords, declined to set out the government's assessment of the cost.
This results in a decline in setting times of the mix.
In a brief hearing yesterday, Justice FitzGerald declined to set bail because of the risk that Mr. Karsan would flee to Turkey.
The press declined to set up the kind of independent regulator that both Leveson and parliament wanted to see.
Thereafter a long period of decline set in, accentuated by the neglect of its distant rulers (French, Spanish, Austrian, Neapolitan, Bourbon) and by Arab slave raids along the coast.
The last 30 years have seen the decline of a set of "congregational" institutions such as the church, trade unions and political parties.
