Something that decreases our income substantially.
Maybe that decreases the box office.
"We have a patented process that decreases the surface tension of water," he said.
She also developed macular degeneration, a condition that decreases visual acuity and can cause the loss of central vision.
Some children lack a hormone that decreases urine production at night.
Generally accepted accounting principles require groups like the N.R.A. to reflect future obligations to members as a debt that decreases as it provides services.
"Anything that decreases the risk of falling even by a few percent will have a tremendous impact on society," Mr. Milton said.
The bathroom scale is a pervasive computing device that decreases admissions, but if congestive heart failure is my biggest profit center, that could have a huge negative impact".
The eye must interpolate and smooth the jaggedness of the screen font, a task that decreases both reading speed and comprehension.
Every dollar diverted to private accounts increases the federal deficit, and as first-year economic students are taught, that decreases national savings.
Mary Curnock Cook, the chief executive of Ucas, said: "Our analysis shows that decreases in demand are slightly larger in more advantaged groups than in the disadvantaged groups.
