Much of the Big Three's problems relate to foreign competitors like Toyota Motor and Honda Motor taking market share; the union's membership has also dwindled, in part, because it has failed to organize a single domestic assembly plant solely owned by a foreign automaker.
Population numbers continue to dwindle in part due to high numbers of ponies being smuggled into Myanmar (Burma), where the breed is in demand, after either having been purchased or stolen from their Indian owners.
Just last December, for example, AT&T announced that it would get out of the pay phone business by the end of this year, and the companies that maintain pay phone lines and the accompanying street enclosures are struggling to profit from a dwindling, once-lucrative part of the industry.
As the elephant population grows in southern Africa countries, it has continued to dwindle in parts of central and western Africa.
Part of the elongated development period for the "Scream" franchise may come from its dwindling box office returns.
Kodak's net income has declined for the last five quarters, hurt in part by dwindling film sales stemming from digital photography, which uses no film.
The decision to focus on an intensified Predator campaign using Hellfire missiles appears to reflect dwindling options on the part of the White House for striking a blow against Al Qaeda in the Bush administration's waning days.
Gov. Jim Gibbons, a Republican, submitted to the Legislature this month a budget that included 6percentt pay cuts for teachers and a 36percentt reduction in all higher-education financing to help close an expected $1.8 billion revenue gap created in part by dwindling tourism profits and a collapsing housing market.
This is due, in part, to dwindling reserves, but also to fracking and new horizontal drilling techniques that have liberated otherwise unobtainable gas deposits.
