Mostly it has declined in the expected economic ways.
We need to figure out economic ways to build our cities, ways in which we can build affordable housing or middle-income housing.
"He wants the American president to recognize that China is dramatically rising in military and economic ways, and he wants the president to know that he is active in world diplomacy," Mr. Shi said.
Even some allies, feeling powerless and after America decided to go to war in Iraq with or without them, have found diplomatic and economic ways to thumb their noses at Washington.
Dropped by Griffith for the unattractive Carol Dempster, she remained his friend and defender, insisting that a crass industry was bent on destroying him (when, in fact, his heedless economic ways made him the auteur of his own misery).
As the effect was felt across the globe, China, the largest foreign holder of US debt, issued an extraordinary demand that Washington change its economic ways and address its "debt addiction".
