With more recent indicators showing a shrinking housing market, dwindling orders for factory goods and rampant discounting among retailers, some economists saw far more clouds than sun.
With reports showing a shrinking German middle class, a raise for the chancellor, who currently receives about $390,000 a year in total compensation, would not seem like a particularly winning campaign issue.
The company has shown a shrinking negative GAAP operating margin over time.
Its fate is bound up with the ever-changing agricultural landscape in northwestern Belgium and analysis of historical data showed a shrinking distribution area during the last decades.
The gels showed a shrinking phase in the region of high alcohol concentration (second shrink), which had not been observed in other hydrogels such as NIPAAm.
General Motors, for example, also shows a shrinking percentage of references to the subject since 2010, according eRevalue's data.
Instead of the Samaras government focusing its attention on long overdue legislative and taxation reforms to bring in much needed revenue and kick-start some semblance of an economic recovery, it is continuously forced to enlist armies of staffers to prepare documentation showing a shrinking budget hole in order to receive the next bailout installment.
Early in the Bush administration, which took office just as the economy was sliding into a recession after a period of prolonged growth that saw unemployment sink to historically low levels, both surveys showed a shrinking work force.
One unit showed a shrinking of the periodicity range under BIC (cf. Fig. 5A, red, dot below diagonal).
In summary, all units manipulated with BIC except for the one loser that showed a shrinking of the periodicity range under BIC ( = 21 out of 22) showed response behavior consistent with our model of competitive winner-take-all interactions.
