If it stays a leader, however, it will become a large cash generator when growth slows and its reinvestment requirements diminish.
In old animals, bone's ability to adapt its mass and architecture to functional load-bearing requirements is diminished, resulting in bone loss characteristic of osteoporosis.
Also, as we draw down forces in Afghanistan, our logistical requirements will diminish; this will give the United States more leeway to consider unilateral attacks against terrorists and insurgents in Pakistan.
Similar issues surfaced yesterday at 1 Police Plaza, where an organization that represents black law enforcement officers and a union that represents some of the city's traffic enforcement agents complained that new, stricter recruiting requirements would diminish the ability to hire more blacks and Hispanics.
The committee, chaired by former University of Texas President Larry Faulkner, believes that the government's "ever-growing requirements are diminishing the effectiveness of the nation's research investment".
Because the issue of forecasting GDF evolution and behaviour over very long time periods lies at the core of geological disposal, particular emphasis is placed on matching containment requirements with diminishing hazard potential over many thousands of years.
"The committee, chaired by former University of Texas President Larry Faulkner, believes that the government's 'ever-growing requirements are diminishing the effectiveness of the nation's research investment.' It asks Congress to set up a quasi-governmental entity, which it calls the Research Policy Board (RPB), as a mechanism to come up with better ways of overseeing the U.S. research enterprise.
The addition of Rules and Requirements always diminish scientific achievement and exploration.
Back in 2010, research from the banking industry argued that raising capital requirements would diminish long-run economic growth, while a study by the Macroeconomic Assessment Group for the Financial Stability Board and Basel Committee on Banking Supervision concluded that the impact would be meager.
Bowing in part to fears that tougher requirements would diminish the credit needed to revive a sluggish global economy, officials gathered in Basel, Switzerland, are trying to strike a compromise over a set of new international banking standards initially proposed in December.
