Sentence examples for shrinking investment from inspiring English sources

Half its revenue comes from rent it collects on the land beneath the Chrysler Building, with the rest from alumni donations and a shrinking investment portfolio.

With shrinking investment, and fewer jobs and young families, new house-building has fallen by half in the past ten years.So now Nagasaki's living standards are falling too, a shock in a country where economists said that individuals could be better off even if the overall economy shrank in size.

For those who have suffered an economic reversal -- a shrinking investment portfolio or, more drastically, a job loss -- Ms. Klinkenberg advised, "If you're not making ends meet, get a card, tuck in $5 and a little note saying, 'I wish this could be more.

These latter two categories have seen shrinking investment over the last six months.

This pattern is reinforced by the chronic underinvestment in the lowest-income countries and shrinking investment by the high-income countries.

Suddenly faced with shrinking investments in public equities, many, including Duke, Columbia and Harvard, sold or considered selling their stakes in illiquid venture funds on the secondary market or sharply decreased the amount they invested in venture.

This will compound problems at four-year colleges battling shrinking investments, donations and government funding.

These new numbers reverse — at least temporarily — top lobbying forces' shrinking investments in the kinds of conventional government influence efforts that they must by law report publically.

Conversely, not all shrinking investments are losers (when similar investments are doing even worse).

This complexity has two elements: unlike Lloyds, RBS is relatively big in investment banking and is much more international; and there has been more disagreement with the owner, the Treasury, on future strategy (the chancellor has urged RBS to shrink investment banking faster than Stephen Hester, a former investment banker, was keen to do).

As economic activity declines, regional markets shrink, investment by business is discouraged, firms fail to innovate and a downward spiral of economic activity occurs (Myrdal 1957) and regional competitiveness is lost.