The falling production mirrors trends in nearly every product that the nation depends on, from potatoes and corn to automotive manufacturing, with fewer than 1,100 cars made in the country through July this year.
What they cannot explain are the sudden price spikes and falls, which mirror the entry and exit of speculative hot money, which has increased the price of commodities and seriously increased volatility.
Mr. Kravis's fall mirrors those of many in high finance.
It is a dizzying reversal of fortune for a publication whose meteoric rise and fall mirrors the euphoric, then harrowing times lived by the dot-com entrepreneurs it covered.
The 27percentt price fall mirrored the overall state of the contemporary art market; still, bidding was active, and the painting came through as the top lot of the afternoon's offering of postwar and contemporary art, beating works by Damien Hirst, Keith Harding and Richard Prince.
The result is a thin reflective layer that floats on the surface of the oil.So far, Dr Borra has achieved a reflectivity of 50% (that is, half of the light falling on the mirror is reflected), but he is confident that he will be able to equal the 80% reflectivity of mercury.
The number of women having mammograms actually fell slightly, mirroring a national trend, while the number of older people who received flu shots fell, most likely because of the vaccine shortages of the last two years.
But its theatricality, both of the showy, expensive kind (rising and falling chandeliers, mysterious mirrors and underground lagoons) and of the more potent, elemental kind (obsessive love and beautiful sopranos and virtuous aristocrats), remains intact.
But Prius sales this year are off 15.8% from 2014, according industry research firm Autodata Corp., a figure that mirrors falling sales for all hybrids.
