The Fish that Shrank

Zainab is in jail.

But the overall threat has never diminished much.

That difference probably has been narrowed since then.

Fog has limited visibility to 100 meters.

Populations of freshwater vertebrates have declined on average by nearly 50 since 1987, while populations of terrestrial and marine species have fallen by around 30 .

Support for the nationalists decreased from 55 to 30 over the same period.

Because Lee was injured, the strength of the Stars has greatly diminished.

Instead of diminishing since Milosevic's fall, drug smuggling has increased.

Thus the mixed verdict is this less poverty, higher median incomes, and more inequality.

With the defeat and demise of Saddam Hussein, the danger of an Eastern front against Israel has diminished.

GDP rose millions were lifted out of poverty literacy rates soared child mortality figures fell.

Moreover, the greatest threat of the 1960 s and 1970 s nuclear annihilation has diminished.

Rapid productivity increases in manufacturing had outpaced growth in demand, which meant that manufacturing employment decreased.

There also used to be approximately 100 cinemas built each year, which has now decreased to 30 40 .

F.E. Our audience has decreased by about two or three times, but the number of registered potholes has increased at about the same rate.

So the Saudi dilemma has been heightened, not lessened, by its changed stance on Iraq.

Such workers have lost jobs by the millions. Those who have kept their jobs have seen their wages stagnate or decline.

Meanwhile, the security dimension of EU membership diminished in importance when the US opted for rapid NATO enlargement.

Those who have kept their jobs have seen their wages stagnate or decline.

As this UK sponsored resolution was meant to bring the Iraq issue back to the Security Council after the withdrawal of the UN weapons inspectors and subsequent American air strikes of December 1998, hope for progress on Iraq within the Security Council was scant.

Finally, the Commission s annual development assistance to Afghanistan is falling this year, from 200 million to 150 million.

But, in assessing the benefits achieved by economic growth, it is a mistake to focus on whether the income gap between rich and poor widened or narrowed.

Pension payments now account for 16 of Greek GDP precisely because Greece s economy is 25 smaller than it was in 2009.

Of course, because the US economy has grown faster than military spending, the share of GDP dedicated to military expenditures has fallen over the years.

Globalisation produced its own domino effect. The dominoes toppled GDP rose millions were lifted out of poverty literacy rates soared child mortality figures fell.

So, now that the threat posed by the Green Movement has diminished at least in Khamenei s eyes the time has come to call Ahmadinejad to account.

In fact, total official development assistance to all recipient countries, net of debt cancellation, actually declined by 2 between 2005 and 2006.

So what we do in our field is we change and input, we give aggressive chemotherapy, and we say, Did that output get better? Did that pain improve, etc.?

Photo from Facebook page of Elephant Conservation CenterLaos was once called the land of a million elephants but today elephant population has been reduced to several hundreds because of poaching and illegal ivory trade.

The attacks and the response to them have obviously brought about a sea change in international relations, but it would be difficult to argue that further atrocities have become less likely as a result.

To the west, people fear immigration, job losses, and having to pay for enlargement either directly, in increased contributions to the EU budget, or indirectly, through subsidies that go, for example, to Polish Galicia rather than to Spanish Galicia.

Russia is no longer hampered by communist ideology and a cumbersome central planning system, and the likelihood of ethnic fragmentation, though still a threat, has waned.

Indeed, as the financial crisis spread to the emerging markets that host most SWFs, the proportion of foreign investments within SWF portfolios fell to about 60 .

The recording process was tough for Flea, who felt like an outsider in the band and that his role was being diminished due to a musical power struggle with Frusciante.

Their populations have been greatly reduced since the 17th century the number of green turtles has declined from 91 million to 300,000 and hawksbill turtles from 11 million to less than 30,000 by 2006.

During World War II, for example, political support for great fortunes diminished and the government sharply increased taxes on capital gains, dividends, and high incomes in general.

Iraqi statistics, which define unemployment more expansively, show rates in percent declining from the mid twenties to the teens in the past two years.

In fact, major producers like Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico have seen their participation in US imports decrease, whereas China s increased to 16 2006, from 3 in 1990.

Second, support for Sharia, never high in Turkey, has actually declined since the AKP came to power, from 19 in 1996 to 8 in 2007.

Moreover, it ought not to be forgotten that between 1950 and 1980, Venezuela itself reduced extreme poverty from 43 to 8 of the population, one of the lowest figures in Latin America.

But net foreign purchases of US stocks for the first ten months of 2003 are still positive (although down about 90 from the same period of 2000, the bubble peak year).

Investments from Hong Kong and Macao claimed 70 of Chinese FDI in the early 90s since then their share has decreased, yet it still accounts for 50 of China s total FDI.

As euro zone banks sought the protection of their home countries by repatriating their capital, East European currencies and bond markets came under pressure, their economies sagged and households ability to service their debts diminished.

Even in Chile, which enjoyed high economic growth and cut poverty in half, and Brazil, which lowered the percentage of citizens living below the poverty line by a third during the 1990 s, the concentration of wealth has increased.