"This deterioration has resulted in heavy loan losses which have led to substantial operating losses and severely diminished capital levels," Mr. Clark said.
Therefore, went the speculation, labourers would be at an advantage if they contributed to the accumulation of capital to enlarge the fund; if they made exorbitant demands on employers or formed labour organizations that diminished capital, they would be reducing the size of the fund, thereby forcing wages down.
We also demonstrate that intercontinental trade barriers (in the form of duties) diminish working capital and entail longer delivery routes.
Forced migrations ultimately diminish social capital or the network of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society.
* The abolition of anonymous, numbered money market accounts intended to diminish flight capital by luring deposits from investors unwilling to declare wealth to the tax authorities.
That's the impact of its bailout package, with its banking sector diminished and capital controls preventing Cypriots from withdrawing large sums of money from their accounts.
In response to diminishing venture capital returns, investors have been advocating small funds of only a few hundred million dollars and staying away from high-cost, high-risk alternative energy companies.
The effort highlights how even small banks in poor countries are getting caught in the financial crisis — and it offers them a chance to get public money to replace rapidly diminishing private capital.
He explores the self-sustaining nature of mass incarceration, which disrupts and diminishes social capital, and observes, "There is now some indication that that it actually becomes criminogenic that is, mass incarceration may work to create new criminals".
He explores the self-sustaining nature of mass incarceration, which disrupts and diminishes social capital, and observes, "There is now some indication that that it actually becomes criminogenic — that is, mass incarceration may work to create new criminals".
"It's not a crisis in confidence, but it is a more cautious approach," Mr. Sohl said of the perspective of investors, whom he said may also have less to invest in new companies because the market's decline has diminished their capital.
