Sentences with phrase «severe decline»

The most severe declines in crop yields are shown in dark brown.

These industries have since experienced severe decline and closure, and the city today is largely a business and cultural center, with a particular reputation for nightlife.

Many of the metro areas that suffered the most severe declines during the housing market crash enjoyed the highest price increases in that period.

The only problem is how many of us — regardless of investment time horizon — will enthusiastically embrace the next severe decline in our investment portfolios?

A variety of studies have found that about half of couples with a new baby experienced a moderate to severe decline in marital satisfaction.

In the next severe decline, only those with cash will be able to buy — but many fund managers won't be in that group.

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Historically, it has suffered severe declines due to predation by humans, introduced Black Rats Rattus rattus and most especially feral cats (Ashmole et al. 1994), and there is still a very small threat of cats reaching Boatswainbird from Ascension Island (Orta 1992a), although this has been minimised by the successful cat eradication in 2004.

For example, since peaking in April, the Nasdaq Biotech Index had fallen nearly 10 % at its lows, a much more severe decline than the broader market.

Commercial whaling during the 20th century killed some 22,000 animals annually, causing severe declines in almost all large whale species before most nations stopped whaling in 1986.

«I guess 0.9 percent in the scheme of things, given how severe the decline was in December, January and February, isn't enough to offset the loss of sales.»

Now geologists have discovered that the Aral Sea has previously recovered naturally from such severe declines.

The plants form unique communities on the volcanic plains of Victoria, but are in severe decline because of agriculture.

It never recovered completely — probably, the team concludes, because changes in habitat, particularly forest growth, kept populations small and isolated from the southern herds, which had less severe declines in diversity.

Another example of the importance of citizen science data can be found in a study recently published in the journal Biological Conservation, which documents severe declines in monarch overwintering populations in California.

(Read the United States Geological Survey report Severe Declines in Everglades Mammals Linked to Pythons for more.)

This treaty is intended to protect wetland habitat of migratory shore birds whose numbers are in severe decline worldwide.

«Americans should go childless, or limit themselves to a single offspring, as an act of patriotism,» said Ehrlich, who warns that expanding consumption will damage our life - support systems — causing a decline of food security and depletion of water recourses — and a possibly severe decline in standards of living.

Pacific tuna stocks on severe decline What's at stake is the sustainability of Bigeye and Yellowfin tuna stocks in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Cats also ate many mammals from a group that has suffered severe declines and extinctions over the past 200 years.

In contrast, half the KLF4 - deficient mice died of heart failure within a week; the rest experienced severe declines in the heart's ability to contract and pump blood.

For both species, the most severe declines have occurred in the Southern New England stocks and the Mid-Atlantic stocks.

Financial constraints, investor bearishness, and the ever - lengthening time cycle to build new mines will in our opinion lead to a moderate to severe decline in global gold - mining output before the end of the decade.

«Consider diversifying your holdings prior to retirement, so a severe decline in your employer's stock price won't wreck your retirement plans,» she said.

In fact, Hamilton argues that the slowdown in 2007 and 2008 might not have developed into a full - blown recession at all, were it not for a severe decline in U.S. domestic auto production, itself the result of high fuel prices.

The stock suffered a severe decline in recent months with a few relieves in March 2014 and end of June 2014.

A short - term extension, as proposed by the union, with the continued threat of a work disruption will not reverse this severe decline.

I can't say when, but we have an equity market decline coming, maybe a severe decline.

He hasn't played any serious football to not of since 2012 and this latest incident marks the severe decline of the striker since his heyday in Serie A.

Brexit is likely to trigger a significant decrease in immigration, but it will be due to a severe decline in the UK's economic performance rather than government policy.

Alison Badgett, executive director for the New York State Association for Affordable Housing, an industry trade organization, said eliminating the program would result in a «severe decline» in affordable housing development.

This may help to explain why mountain amphibians are in severe decline.

The severe decline in precipitation in the African Sahel during the past 30 years seems to be related to both anthropogenic warming and aerosol pollutants.

Women experience rheumatoid arthritis at a rate three times greater than men, and also have more severe decline and increased disability, yet the sex - based differences in the condition remain poorly understood.

The most severe declines were seen toward the center of each species» range in the U.S. «The Mid-Atlantic states, in particular, need to start paying more attention to managing these species,» Palkovacs said.

These barriers, combined with fishing, logging, and the effects of development have pushed several formerly abundant salmon and steelhead stocks to severe decline or disappearance.

The severe decline indicates what researchers fear is the imminent extinction of this species.

In 2001, Bd had been linked to a severe decline of the midwife toad in Spain.

Unlike the global surface temperature record, the Center for Computational Data Sciences has clearly seen a severe decline in the last fifteen years.

Indeed, by removing some of the most talented students and involved parents from P.S. 121, the busing program contributed to the school's severe decline in quality in the ensuing years — a pattern repeated in many urban schools with low - income, minority student populations.

These labor market impacts were concentrated among young men, a group that has experienced a severe decline in real earnings in recent years.

The complaint filed by Fisker paints Aston Martin as a company facing a severe decline in sales, and one that has had legal disputes with Fisker in the past.

I believe that we will see some severe declines in housing values in next 12 months.

«In the short - term we are not facing a severe decline in the so - called Composite Leading Indicator (CLI), which measures the future state of the economy, and in my opinion an imminent phase shift will be relatively short - lived — if it ever comes.»

In fact, the frequency with which stocks suffer large losses is the very reason why stocks have provided such high real returns over the long term — investors demand a large risk premium to compensate them for taking the risks of severe declines.