As gatekeepers decline, status signals shift from approval-based to performance-based.

I guess I’m a little skeptical about the product side of this restructuring. Can they turn around the decline in market share with their new product?

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

We had a look at the numbers, but its panels are predominantly wooden and in decline.

Xerox would present such an unfathomable integration challenge. Really, when you think about it, Xerox would like to be more like HP. The page volume is moving more to printers, and you wonder why HP...

A decline is not a surprise here, but the size of the decline is a surprise,

The more leeches there are affixed to a host, the less resources there are to siphon from said hosts, per parasite. The ability to only absorb energy, without the ability or desire to reproduce it...

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

We could pull back a bit, but it will be limited to about a 5 percent decline and it will be quick. This market rally has not been about buying interest, but about the total...

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can’t keep digging to find the light.

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

This is the third decline in the last four months. Again, it’s worrisome, but not surprising.

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never...

We saw the impact of the recession in 2002 and 2003, then saw a smaller decline in 2004. But in 2005, we started to see job increases, and that’s a positive sign.

The headline (number) was clearly disappointing, but it remains to be seen whether weakness in the Philly Fed will be reflected in the national ISM index and whether this is a temporary phenomenon or a...

Our politicians, by their words and policies, either expand or contract the frontiers of freedom. We the people either monitor and encourage its progress, or witness and suffer its decline. (Scott L. Vanatter)

While we have expected weaker trends in orders, we were surprised by the magnitude of the 20% decline in the quarter given the significant community growth.

Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.’I like that idea. It’s reassuring. If we can have no secrets, it means we can’t, after all, go so far afield as we might,’ he...

There are two ways of seeing quality decline. One is that you lose high-quality jobs or you gain low quality jobs, and that is exactly what’s happening.

Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against...

It’s not really troubling. It’s the first decline since September. Probably more important is the trend that’s in place, which is upward. You would probably need to see three or more declines in the leading...

We expect earnings momentum to slow but think an earnings decline likely only after mid-2007.

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.

If kissing is man’s greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man’s worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing...

To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the...

I would expect there to be some decline in price but that is a function of the marketplace,

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

The decline in the prices paid component is good news. It looks as if we’re seeing some moderation in pricing pressures, but not a significant drop.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Higher education has seen its percentage of general fund decline.

The worldwide market for semiconductors in 2001 is expected to decline 31 percent due to excessive inventories and price pressure on a wide range of products, … However, recent data indicates inventory is now largely...

There is a lot of nervousness about gasoline after the huge decline in supplies the last five weeks. With maintenance so high, there is concern about whether they can get up and running fast enough...

The more stable picture in the total index and the lessening pace of decline in orders would fit with the idea of a 25-basis-point (0.25 percent) reduction on May 15 instead of the more aggressive...

It’s not like it was unexpected. It was in decline.

For I respectfully declineTo dignify the Serpentine,And make hors-d’oeuvres for fishes.

I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on...

I think the price decline pressure is gradually easing.

A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the...

Only the degree of severity of the decline will vary from one company to the next.

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.