While the value of the rial has eroded for the past few years as Iran's economic isolation has deepened, the severity of the drop worsened with surprising speed in recent days as Iranians rushed to sell rials for dollars.
And Anya Kamenetz noted in The Atlantic magazine in December, "During the past three decades, the United States has slipped from first among nations to 10th in the percentage of people holding a college degree, even as the job market has eroded for Americans without one".
"If you look at nothing but the numbers, in terms of mood of the country, the popularity of the president, there's no question the environment has eroded for Republicans since November," said Neil Newhouse, a partner at the Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies.
In all three countries, the perceived results of NAFTA seem to have eroded support for further trade liberalisation.NAFTA's champions are partly to blame for this: they oversold their case.
Shortages of food, medicine and other basics have eroded support for the government in poor neighbourhoods.
The nation's lagging economic growth and rising unemployment rate have eroded sympathy for public sector workers.
Ironically, the advancing peace process appears to have eroded support for the APNI, one of the few local parties that has consistently championed negotiation and tolerance.
The shortages have eroded support for the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro, whose party lost control of the national legislature in December elections.
It is possible that this correlation reflects the urinary excretion of mostly unconjugated mEP, whereas variable conjugation rates (due to polymorphisms in the phase 2 glucuronidation reaction enzyme, uridine 5′-diphosphate glucoronosyltransferase) may have eroded correlations for other monoester metabolites that are generally excreted in their conjugated form.
Most for-profit corporate hospitals' credit quality have eroded, and hope for a cure anytime soon is not looking good.
