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The association said that while it expected lower profits after an exceptionally strong first quarter, the decline was steeper than expected.

Abercrombie & Fitch late Friday reported a drop in first-quarter same-store sales that was steeper than expected and cut its full-year profit view.

Dow Jones, which was forced to evacuate its offices across the street from the World Trade Center, said the decline in advertising at The Journal was steeper than expected, a trend some foresee across the newspaper industry.

The decline was steeper than expected.

The increase was steeper than expected, and Treasury yields crept back down from recent highs on the uncertain economic indicators.

April's core consumer price index, which strips out food and energy prices, increased by less than expected according to a May 14 report, but on Tuesday the U.S. Labor Department reported a climb in the core producer price index that was steeper than expected at 0.4%.

The International Energy Agency said on July 10th that the drop in production had been steeper than expected.

The release, as reported by The News, suggested that Ford would also say that its fourth-quarter losses would be steeper than expected.

Most forget the relative youth of the Web and the fact that the learning curve for Web advertising might be steeper than expected, especially for those who hitched their financial wagons to an advertising model.

The RILs have the disadvantage of genetic correlations among traits; there are genetic correlations between seed size and vegetative traits such as rosette size, causing the trade-off between seed size and number to be steeper than expected from simple life-history theory (−1.68±0.18; F1,160 = 84.4, p<0.0001; calculated from data in [23]).

However, the G functions for Ch+ somata (and hence for ChC cartridges) were steeper than expected if somata were distributed at random under CSR conditions, revealing closer than expected nearest neighbors and thus suggesting a clustered pattern (Fig.  9).