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While album sales have slid precipitously over the last decade, nearly each year tends to bring at least one blockbuster with around one million sales in its opening week.

Crime watchers may want to refresh their memories about the events that led up to what could well remain for the next 94 years the most notorious bankruptcy of the century.It is more than four years since the Texas energy company slid precipitously from grace to become the most potent symbol of turn-of-the-century hubris and greed in corporate America.

After the relationship between Giuliani and Bratton soured and Bratton left his post, Giuliani continued to push hard for crime reductions in the city, and racial tensions flared between citizens and the police in the outer boroughs, to the point where Giuliani's own approval ratings slid precipitously among allegations of excessive force.

The Shanghai Composite index slid precipitously, by 3.1%, to 2,651.60.

Then his ratings slid precipitously in the wake of a national controversy over the state's "religious freedom" law, which would have allowed businesses to refuse service to LGBT customers on religious grounds.

CNN's ratings have been sliding precipitously recently, and its parent company is about to complete its merger with America Online.

With the Celtics on the verge of sliding precipitously in the East and now facing dissolution of their 2008 championship core, Allen made the smart career choice.

COMING off one of the worst years ever for the housing market, Connecticut has reason to be hopeful that 2010 will be better — chiefly because it is hard to imagine the economy sliding precipitously enough for sales to fall still further.

If it's 20 degrees outside, as it was last week, it might be 15 indoors, so Ms. Gallagher will stoke the fire and go for a long walk; when she returns, the room can be 50 degrees, and 60 by bedtime, though it slides precipitously toward freezing as she sleeps.

But it was 2008 and the country was sliding precipitously into the Great Recession.

Mr. Berlusconi, at 75 the dominant Italian politician for almost two decades, has watched his support slide precipitously in recent months over everything from the economy to his own trial on charges of tax fraud, corruption and paying for sex with a minor.