While a stronger Australian dollar and increasing competition for international students, especially from countries like the United States, are among the factors blamed for the decline, universities have become increasingly critical of the country's student visa requirements.
The United States, which has been the engine keeping the world economy moving forward, has a trade deficit, because our growing deficit enables us to buy their goods". The trade deficit is one of the factors blamed for unease on Wall Street and the October nose-dive in stock prices.
A host of factors were blamed for the decline, including the lack of any comprehensive theory of the disease to guide research, the apparent intractability of the problem and the limited possibilities to actually help many patients.
Similar results were observed in other studies where similar factors were blamed for not reaching a decision at the MDT meeting [ 10, 18].
Low serum albumin level, renal dysfunction, and co-medications (corticosteroids) are the main factors usually blamed for raising metabolite concentrations [ 2].
The original production, at Playwrights Horizons, opened in January 1991, during the Persian Gulf war, a factor that some blamed for the lukewarm response of many audiences.
43 Stress was a major factor that patients blamed for not taking medicines on time and for eating a poor diet.
There, as here, lots of factors have been blamed for plunging marriage rates, including that more young people (especially men) are stuck in temporary, part-time or otherwise "irregular" jobs, and potential partners want greater economic security before committing.
While an array of factors may be blamed for overcrowding – inadequate building and maintenance programmes, for example, and the inefficient use of existing facilities – there is also the simple question of the number of people in the system.
