A third possibility is that people are worried less about stagnating material conditions and more about dwindling political power.
With retirement savings dwindling, more and more of you may be wondering if you'll be able to retire as planned.
From 2002 to this year, the department went from zero to more than $11.6 million in total domestic security grants, according to Police Department figures, while other criminal justice grants, like those from Justice Department programs used to pay overtime and hire more officers, dwindled to less than $4.5 million for the same period.
The global food system today faces the significant challenge of feeding more people amid dwindling natural resources and a more fragile natural environment.
With Houston accommodating nearly 30,000 evacuees in the Astrodome area and at a downtown convention center, and 100,000 or more in hotel rooms and private residences, officials said the capacity to accept more people was dwindling, although they pledged that no one would be turned away.
The more of our dwindling resources we spend on attempting to prevent drugs (mainly marijuana) from coming into the country, the more the price goes up, the greater the profits for criminals--and the higher the pressure to eviscerate more of our civil liberties while pouring even more money into what we should now recognize to be a bottomless pit.
Hopes of finding more are fast dwindling.
"The Manifesto of Futurist Cuisine" (1930) signified nothing more than a dwindling into decadence.
The Buffalo's adversaries would thereafter be no more than a dwindling clutch of vigilantes lacking even the support of a sympathetic civilian population.
Mr. Chun said the greengrocery industry had already been squeezed by competition, and more merchants, citing dwindling profits and the labor dispute, are bailing out.
