However, the survey also indicated a slight deterioration in profitability across the sector.
Nor does the slight deterioration in the economic outlook seem like adequate justification for the shift.
The gains in short-term objectives are obtained with none or only slight deterioration of long-term objectives.
After a slight deterioration in the first Early Dynastic period, when brocade patterns or files of running animals were preferred, mythical scenes returned.
These lead to a slight deterioration of the quantization error with respect to the serial version but a large improvement in computing efficiency.
EVAR showed a slight deterioration of renal function, but the evaluated tests are insensitive and without prognostic value concerning mortality or hospitalization.
The design-III and design-IV retain most of the economical advantages of the design-II with only slight deterioration in controllability as compared with the design-I.
The comparison between Eulerian and Lagrangian arrays shows only a slight deterioration in the results due to the spatial dispersion of the floats and due to the loss of 20 of them which left the model domain during the experiment.
Despite the recent release of five people the United States considered political prisoners and a journalist, Mr. Kramer characterized the political situation in Belarus as "stagnant to slight deterioration" since the 2006 presidential elections, when the police arrested hundreds of people in several days of antigovernment protests.
Kate Moy of Arbuthnot said: "While there has been a slight deterioration in the order book of Mouchel, which now stands at £1.7bn (versus £1.8bn at the end of November), the shocking figure is the decline in the pipeline of tenders and near-term opportunities which in late November stood at £2.6bn, but is now down at £2bn.
The leverage ratio at Bear Stearns rose from 26.0 in 2005 (meaning that total assets were 26 times the value of shareholders' equity) to 32.8 in 2007.Second, financial institutions were exposed to product leverage via complex instruments, such as CDOs, which needed only a slight deterioration in the value of underlying assets for losses to escalate rapidly.
