A group of 50 Minnesota teachers laid off from rural schools because of declining enrollments banded together in 2004 to start an online charter school called Blue Sky.
Finally, he said, if it is indeed a board's policy to charge the maximum amount, then the only way to change that policy would be for the shareholders either to persuade the board to change it or, if the board declines, to band together and change the board.
Alan Parsons, EMI staff engineer for Pink Floyd's previous studio album, The Dark Side of the Moon, had declined the band's offer to continue working with them (Parsons became successful in his own right with The Alan Parsons Project).
There are few musical hands that are harder to play than being a once-groundbreaking rock band declining into their dotage.
So with revenues from record sales declining, how will bands be able to afford to play in 10 years?
Community profiles based on thermogradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE) of 16S rDNA genes amplified from total community DNA showed a highly complex pattern in the sediments and a declining number of bands in the water column over the experimental period independent of the presence of GEMs.
It was rumoured that merchandising company PMS International were to take out an £800,000 lawsuit against the band for declining sales as a direct result of the drugs scandal.
It's rare that such a change in lineup isn't accompanied by considerable drama, but if there was any, it stayed decidedly behind the scenes, with the band mostly declining to discuss it.
A set of filters, called "Spatial Frequency Channels", performs this analysis: Each channel is tuned to a preferential frequency band, with declining sensitivity to increasingly different frequencies.
The anagram in 2 down is proving particularly problematic: "German electro band declines ice cream, tries sorbet tho (9)." For the band's appearance in Tron Legacy, they recruited the film's special-effects maestros Ironhead Studios to handle helmet duties.
