It is poor (with almost 30% of residents below the poverty line), shrinking (its population has fallen by a quarter since 1970) and broke (its mayor has declared "a new era of crisis").
Starting from a literature survey and an application scenario the line shrink method was selected and an experiment designed.
If you sell off a chunk of your revenue, investors are going to notice when your top line shrinks in the next quarter.
"Apple has revamped their entire iPod line, shrinking their already-tiny Nanos and adding the iPhone's multitouch interface to a non-phone media player.
You feel its dark wiry lines shrinking towards nothing.
With the number of traditional phone lines shrinking, they hope to compete with cable providers on cable's turf — selling television service.
As chip lines shrink below 32 nanometers, metrology systems that monitor the physical, optical and material characteristics become more important.
The antibiotics had upset the balance of immune cells and damaged the gut lining, shrinking the villi, but as with the germ-free mice, the guts of these mice recovered with the help of the norovirus.
The owners saw credit lines shrink, inventory suppliers demand cash, and modest local pet specialty bakeries and accessory designers fail.
For the first six months of 1998, the top line growth shrank only $580 million.
Sadly, what these corporations fail to appreciate is how their obsession with the bottom line is shrinking their markets, both domestic and foreign.
