With a stock price hovering only a few dollars above its 52-week low, the sudden dropoff of PC sales has driven the prices of memory chips to their lowest level in more than a year.
But some of the dropoff in consumer spending in the first part of 2011 was also a function of its relative height at the end of 2010, when U.S. consumers spent in earnest for the first time since the recession.
But since 2008 he has been merely a good power hitter, not a great one, and the dropoff since the start of last season has been startling.
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magazine, attributed the dropoff to the relentless march of garden snobbery, abetted by upscale gardening television programs and lifestyle magazines.
Mr. Pataki is predicting that the dropoff in tax revenues because of the devastation in Lower Manhattan could be as much as $3 billion this fiscal year and $6 billion next.
Last July, the company, which runs about 750 hotels, bemoaned the dropoff in business travel because of economic weakness.
Analysts said the dropoff in stock prices grew out of concerns that consumers, whose spending has been largely responsible for lifting the battered economy, might be wearing down.
The dropoff in national ratings for two of the N.H.L.'s non-marquee teams stands in contrast to the rise in ratings for the Oklahoma City-San Antonio Western Conference basketball finals, likewise involving two non-marquee teams.
He and other merchants used to keep their shops open until dusk, but with the dropoff in customers as a result of the attacks, and a nightly curfew, most shop owners close their businesses in the early afternoon.
