This time out, the company has continued to shrink the tip, down from 1.6 mm to 0.7, roughly the size of a ballpoint pen.
As L.A. Unified's student enrollment has continued to shrink, the percentage of chronically absent students has remained essentially unchanged — a concern because funding is based on attendance.
Fears that the economy would suffer a "jobless recovery" similar to that of the first Bush administration are no longer hypothetical: over the past year G.D.P. has grown, but employment has continued to shrink, and the risk that the U.S. will slide into a Japanese-style pattern of slow growth and deflation no longer seems remote.
But despite a relative slowing of the speed of destruction in the last decade, the Amazon has continued to shrink every year.
Even with Colorado River water being sent directly into the Salton Sea, the sea has continued to shrink at a rate faster than predicted, Imperial Irrigation District General Manager Kevin Kelley told the state water board.
But gross investment in the economy has continued to shrink, with construction activity and the retailing sector.
Meanwhile, the American boxing network has continued to shrink since its heyday in the first half of the last century, when no prize in sports rivaled the heavyweight title.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7 — "Kid Nation," the CBS reality program that had trouble attracting advertisers because of early criticism of its kids-alone-in-the-desert premise, has nearly tripled its number of advertisers since the series premiere, though the audience has continued to shrink.
The euro zone probably has continued to shrink in early 2012, meaning that the region is in recession, Christoph Weil, an economist at Commerzbank said in a note.
Many of the patents have been sold, buildings have been rented out or demolished, and the company has continued to shrink since it filed for bankruptcy in 2012.
