It is declining into a sort of primitivism, a debate over what is inherently unknown.
He recalled watching it decline into "a ghost town" by 1980.
Seeking to reverse the armory's long decline and turn it into a money-making cultural center, the state yesterday invited nonprofit organizations and private companies to submit proposals for rehabilitating and operating the building, which occupies a full block between 66th and 67th Streets.
"It's a very good sign that we are not declining into a longer recession," said Jürgen Matthes, senior economist at the Cologne Institute for Economic Research.
Zhang's work was similar to Ban's, although the latter fully praised the contemporaneous Eastern Han regime while Zhang provided a warning that it could suffer the same fate as the Western Han if it too declined into a state of decadence and moral depravity.
Later, Jorge Cauz, Britannica's president, told me in an e-mail that if Wikipedia continued without some kind of editorial oversight it would "decline into a hulking mediocre mass of uneven, unreliable, and, many times, unreadable articles".
Despite the world's biggest fields slipping into irreversible decline, it's not a question of geology.
Italy, the third largest, had already reported a decline of 0.2%, pushing it into a triple-dip recession.
Said to have over-relied upon the textile sector, as the importation of cheaper foreign yarns grew during the 20th century, Oldham's economy declined into a depression, although it was not until 1964 that Oldham ceased to be the largest centre of cotton spinning.
President Obama seized on that feeling of national decline and tried to turn it into a drive to compete.
