In announcing the $ 500,000 gift, Scully, who is also an Old Sturbridge Village Trustee, lauded the Village's success in rebounding
from years of declining attendance in earlier decades.
Not exact matches
Overall, in both chambers, the number
of top Democratic committee members
from coastal states will
decline in next
year's Congress.
The complaints
from media outlets have been coming for the past several months, with some reports
of sudden traffic
declines as high as 40 % compared with last
year.
If you're planning to go the coupon route yourself, a primer on trends
from Inmar's report: The clip - and - save renaissance forced companies to keep face values down — they
declined by a penny to $ 1.44, a reversal
of years of increase.
These traders are «looking for the VIX index to continue
declining from its recent
year - to - date high and settle back nearer its 10.79 July / August average,» Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director
of predictive analytics at S3, wrote in a client note.
According to data
from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a branch
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the life expectancy for a baby born in 2016 fell to 78.6
years, which is a small but statistically significant
decline of 0.1 percent.
As
of the end
of July, there were nearly 123,000 consumer proposals and personal bankruptcies filed by Canadians this
year, a
decline of 1.2 per cent
from the same period last
year.
Coal has seen significant
declines in recent
years, accounting for just 9 %
of electricity generation in 2016, down
from around 23 % the
year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.
Nor is core as hot as it looks on paper, he said; the
decline in the value
of the dollar
from a
year ago is making imports more expensive.
Their newest paper uses historical data
from multiple countries to show that an increase in the ratio
of household debt to gross domestic product over a three - to - four -
year period predicts a
decline in economic growth.
In less than a
year, Weiss went
from hashing out the formulas for each product with a team
of 15 to banking revenue in the multiple millions (she
declined to be more specific) and managing a staff
of 30.
The Fed permitted the quantity
of money to
decline by one - third
from 1929 to 1933, just as the Bank
of Japan permitted monetary growth to be low or negative in recent
years.
Last
year, tourists to Antarctica insured an average
of $ 9,279 in nonrefundable costs, a 3 percent
decline from the
year before, according to Squaremouth.
On Friday, the dollar index was up 4 %
from its lows
of the
year hit on February 16, as traders found it increasingly expensive to bet against the dollar's
decline.
If he falls in the range for 71 -
year - olds with a college degree (he has a bachelor's
from the Wharton School
of the University
of Pennsylvania), then even if his language, memory, and other mental capacities have
declined over the
years he is probably not suffering
from early Alzheimer's or other dementia.
The surplus was still down 47 percent
from a
year earlier, with the trade balance remained in deficit as the yen's
decline has pushed up costs
of imported fuels immediately while its impact on exports will take some time to be fully seen.
Battered by nearly a
year of off - and - on
declines from record highs because
of fears
of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four
years with
declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.
The data also shows
declining revenues
from yellow cab fares — in the first half
of 2014, cabbies collected $ 1.06 billion; in the same time period this
year, that revenue figure fell to $ 981 million.
Ironically, five
years later, the company that fired me has never rebounded
from the massive
decline that occurred as a result
of sacking the rainmaker.
Analysts were looking for revenue
of about $ 18.6 billion, according to analysts polled by Bloomberg, which would represent a
decline from this quarter last
year.
The producer price index (PPI) dropped 0.8 % in August
from a
year earlier, the slowest pace
of decline since April 2012.
The
declining sales
of this
year's «Call
of Duty» prompted Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson to lower his price target on the publisher
from $ 27 to $ 24, though he maintained an «overweight» rating.
The market share
of the iPhone and iPad maker is projected to
decline from 51 percent to 46 percent this
year.
After
years in which the number
of children being excluded
from schools
declined, the latest figures that slipped out Thursday reveal that the number is starting to rise again.
That would be a
decline from the same quarter a
year ago when earnings per share were $ 4.38 on revenues
of $ 7.69 billion.
The former finds inspiration
from a carbonated soft drink industry that has seen 12 straight
years of sales
declines in the U.S. as consumers buy more bottled water and other healthier drinks.
For two
years on his weekly HBO show, he has delivered biting, closely reasoned rants on topics ranging
from Brexit to the
decline of American newspapers.
After companies
from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number
of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 %
from a
year earlier, the highest rate
of decline since the trend
of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.
The 3.4 % rate
of decline in 2017 increased
from 2 % in the fourth quarter
of 2016 and 1 % a
year before that.
According to Acadata and LSL property services and reported by Bloomberg, the average price
of a house in London was down 2.7 % on the
year in September, the
decline accelerating
from a rate
of 0.7 % in August.
Overall, 2016 marked the fifth consecutive
year of decline in the overall PC industry, with a 5.7 % dip in PC shipments
from 2015.
Births
decline China's national statistics bureau said the number
of births in fell to 17.23 million in 2017, down
from 17.86 million the previous
year.
A leading web analytics company says in a new report that traffic
from Facebook to some
of the top news publishers
declined at double - digit rates in the second quarter
of this
year.
Summit ESP's revenue last
year was about $ 180 million, a
decline of 10 percent
from 2015, according to market researcher Spears & Associates.
Consider: the arsenal
of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has
declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone
from what was a fringe movement just 30
years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.
In terms
of traffic to individual websites, which SimilarWeb also measures, some also saw sharp
declines from the beginning
of the
year.
Research
from digital marketing agency Catalyst Canada found the number
of apps Canadians have on their phones
declined from an average
of 26 in 2014 to less than 19 last
year.
The map below shows the
year - over-
year growth or
decline in specific kinds
of attacks — like phishing attacks originating in Canada or spam
from Russia.
Despite the previously overstated metrics and 4 %
decline in ad revenue
from this time last
year, Twitter's growth results and signs
of approaching profitability sent shares soaring 12 % in premarket trading on Thursday.
From 1996 to 2011, the business startup rate
of immigrants increased by more than 50 percent, while the native - born startup rate
declined by 10 percent, to a 30 -
year low.
Despite this, however, even ESPN has seen a
decline in subscribers over the past
year — and that has had a very tangible impact on Disney's bottom line, since about 45 %
of its profit comes
from broadcasting assets like ESPN.
The stimulus
from a weaker currency is over; if companies didn't respond to a 20 % drop over two
years, they likely aren't going to respond to a
decline of a few more percentage points.
Viacom also said that the bonus paid to its CEO Philippe Dauman
declined 30 % to $ 14 million in fiscal 2015, while his contractually provided salary
of $ 4 million and an annual equity award worth $ 18.9 million were not much changed
from the prior
year.
Meanwhile, data
from the Confederation
of the British Industry showed U.K. retail sales
declining in the
year to August.
«We have recovered
from the
decline since in the last couple
of years,» he said.
As a percentage
of home sales, buying by foreigners in Singapore
declined to just over 6 percent last
year from 18 percent in 2011, Citigroup said in a report.
Said Poloz: «That comparative advantage has been strengthened by the
decline in the Canadian dollar in the past couple
of years — a symptom
of falling resource prices, and a facilitator
of the rotation
of growth
from resource production to other sectors.»
Suffocating under the weight
of declining coal production, West Virginia falls to No. 50
from No. 47 last
year.
The numbers also suggest that Penney is not getting that much
of a lift
from the ongoing
declines at Sears (shld), whose appliance business Penney has been eyeing for two
years now.
The company, which reports its second quarter results Wednesday, has faced
years of declining sales, as well as tough competition
from discounters and online stores.