Suffering from drops in business, bars, restaurants and bingo parlors have laid off hundreds of workers in British Columbia, said Al Arbuthnot, president of the provincial Liquor Licensee and Retailers Association.
Hampered by a knee injury, which necessitated surgery after the English season, and suffering from many dropped catches, he took 50 first-class wickets at an average of 26.14, but his performance compared unfavourably with other bowlers on the team.
This industry has clearly not been suffering from a drop in customer demand.
New York is not alone in suffering from a drop in tourists, of course.
Among those that cannot is Northwest, which, like many airlines, is suffering from a drop in passengers and profits.
The French economy has been suffering from a drop in industrial production, as large employers like the carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroën struggle to cope with plunging demand in their most important markets, including Spain, where growth last quarter fell 0.7 percent.
Correction: January 4, 2004, Sunday An essay last Sunday about a family's visits to places suffering from a drop in tourism misidentified the hotel where the fictional character Eloise played in the elevators.
The episode showed how little margin for error remained even for France, which is already suffering from a drop in industrial production and has watched the gap between its bonds' rates and those of Germany widen to record levels, an ominous development in this environment.
The French farmers are suffering from a drop in vegetable prices made worse by a Kremlin-imposed embargo on Western produce.
But some parts of the economy, especially manufacturing, are suffering from a sharp drop in activity.
