With the patent set to expire in 2001 AstraZeneca faced a drop in profits.
Torsten Bell, from the Resolution Foundation thinktank, has calculated that, if the cuts to tax credits originally planned had gone ahead, a single earner on a minimum wage earning £15,000 a year would have faced a drop in income of £1,500.
More generally, as Facebook has faced a drop-off in user growth in mature markets, it's been looking for more ways to engage those users it already has, in competition with a plethora of rival social media services and dozens of other digital distractions, from Netflix to games to fiddling with your smart home appliances.
The states could face a drop in federal funds even as they are handed more duties of care for their own citizens.
Last week it reported a 1.6% fall in like-for-like sales in the second quarter, as it faces a drop in consumer spending along with other retailers.
Moreover, the industry faces a drop in French wine production this year of up to 40percentt, because Europe's heat wave shrank the grape crop.
In India, carmakers foreign and domestic are facing a drop in demand for small, inexpensive, entry-level cars and more of a market for premium compact sedans and hatchbacks.
Facing a drop in attendance and a shortage of priests, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn plans to close two churches, fold six parishes into three and impose strict budget constraints on all 198 of its parishes.
These areas are likely to face a drop in house prices as the rental market dwindles, a rise in empty properties – and a corresponding rise in vandalism and crime.
Facing a drop of one-third in the foundation's endowment, as well as rising production costs associated with the decline of Waterloo Village, the officials said in 2009 that they could not sustain a festival of the same scale, said Martin J. Farawell, the festival director.
Brazil's mining industry is facing a drop in earnings as the sector adjusts to slower demand from China.
