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For I respectfully decline To dignify the Serpentine, And make hors-d'oeuvres for fishes.

For 2006, we expect a significant decline of exports.

They don't have enough promotional inventories in the stores. They'll only be selling full-price and they're already giving out warnings of negative same-store sales declines in February.

The year's a mess. None of us thought six months ago the holidays would be so weak, and no one expected there'd be such a dramatic decline in sales for the current-generation of games.

This month's decline in the CPI was small. But on top of the two previous months, it means that prices have fallen 1.6 percent, or 6.6 percent on an annualized basis, since October of last year.

Mitch Daniels

The report we've issued this morning confirms that the nation has entered an era of solid surpluses, surpluses on the order of $160 billion, despite an economy that's been weak now for over a year and in decline for that time.

There might be some seasonal reasons for the construction losses, but the decline could be a sign that our overall employment growth is slowing.

You're likely to see price declines on the older- generation software,

This is the first year-on-year decline after years of phenomenal growth.

This is the first study to demonstrate that long-term calorie restriction with optimal nutrition has cardiac-specific effects that (delay or reverse) age-associated declines in heart function.

Scott Patterson

This is not good. The decline in enrollment is something we have to grapple with.

Derek Sivers

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.

Kate Warne

I don't see this as an ongoing decline in technology shares, I do think it's a warning to people whose portfolios have become very overweight in technology that they might want to reconsider the risk in their portfolios, to use this as a head's up.

I fear that with the decline in incomes, many people will downsize, ... And some people may not be able to stay where they are. It is going to have a serious impact on us.

The last two quarters have seen U.S. wireless voice metrics move to a new rate of decline. The decline in per-minute voice revenues continues.

The long-awaited New Zealand dollar decline is coming. The huge investor inflows over 2005 will see to that.

The main driver this week for the dollar has been the paring back of Fed rate expectations. The dollar is going to decline further this year.

Martin Parr

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

The equipment market decline in 2005 was the result of a number of factors, which worked together to slow the demand for new capacity.

Mike Moran

The figures leave little doubt that declines in mortgage interest rates have provided support for housing,

Laini Taylor

Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

The higher profit is only the effect of a strong decline of the tax rate.

These are big declines. It shows you how weak the economy is. Prices don't decline like this unless you've got slack demand conditions.

The market extended yesterday's decline as it took its lead from the overnight losses on Wall Street, especially technology shares on the Nasdaq.

The gasoline figure was the important number, the decline was much larger than expected.

The goal of this policy is to work with landowners to turn the decline of a species around in order to make listing unnecessary.

The dramatic decline in the share price is entirely due to what's going on at its subsidiary. This is a serious distraction from the HSBC takeover arrangement that needs to be resolved.

The gain in distillate was unexpectedly large, which should eventually weigh on the market. Distillate increased because a decline in demand coincided with an increase in imports.

The market seems to be tied more to the Dow nowadays than it is to Nasdaq and brokers seemed to have used this small decline there as a pretext to sell and make some profit.

The market is healthy. The year-over-year decline is mainly because of the exceptional sales volume we experienced last March.

The market is facing some seasonal pressure, but given the violence of the decline and the impending long weekend, I would not be shocked by a short-covering rally into the close.