Even athletes fortunate enough to find work in television upon retirement typically have to accept radically diminished prospects.
But as Google moves to buy Motorola Mobility, RIM, already under pressure from diminished prospects and declining market share, is once again the subject of takeover talk.
Standard & Poor's has said Iceland's credit ratings could be downgraded to "junk" status in the wake of the vote while Fitch has said the result diminished prospects of Iceland regaining an investment grade rating in the near future.
Not only is this a basic violation of social justice, but it does not bode well for the future: these children have diminished prospects for contributing to their country's future.
In too many communities across this country in cities and suburbs and rural hamlets, the shadow of poverty casts a pall over our youth, their lives a fortress of substandard schools and diminished prospects, inadequate health care and perennial violence.
Where youngsters once knuckled down in the hope of a lifetime position at Toyota or Fujitsu, diminished prospects prompted them into a very Japanese form of subversion – wearing outlandish clothes and pink hair dye.
On Wednesday, Moody's explained the change by saying that even the best colleges and universities faced diminished prospects for revenue growth, given mounting public pressure to keep tuition down, a weak economy and the prospect that a penny-pinching Congress could cut financing for research grants and student aid.
Stocks are broadly higher this morning after a rally in overseas markets spilled over to Wall Street and investors expressed relief that mid-term elections diminished prospects for an impeachment of President Clinton.
There are also "diminished prospects for significant rebounds in 2016".
Their struggle, disappointment, and diminished prospects answer another key question in the movie: Does inequality matter?
With diminished prospects for wage-and-salary work in recent years and projections of sluggish growth for at least the near term, as documented in the Congressional Budget Office's February report on the economy, it's natural to look for alternative forms of employment as a way for older Americans to cope with the current macroeconomic climate.
