Despite this massive shrinkage, the reality on the ground is unchanged.

The good news from Cushing's disease is that hippocampal shrinkage and memory impairment is at least partially reversible over several years after correction of the excess cortisol.

That is still far below the replacement rate of 2.1, but higher fertility, together with successful measures to reduce male mortality, has slowed the pace of population shrinkage.

The International Monetary Fund s latest forecast predicts that the world s advanced economies will contract 0.3 in 2009 the first such shrinkage since the end of World War II.

There is evidence that vegetarians tend to have a lower body mass index, lower risk of obesity, lower blood cholesterol levels, lower homocysteine levels, lower risk of high blood pressure, and lower risk of type 2 diabetes.

The root cause of all these developments is Europe s population shrinkage. The demographic time bomb that economic analysts have been discussing for a decade or more is now exploding.

VIENNA The rapid shrinkage of Arctic ice cover is one of the most dramatic changes in nature currently occurring anywhere on the planet, with profound environmental and economic implications.

Lower the mask, dear dentist, lower the mask.

As the dramatic shrinkage of the Aral Sea, Lake Chad, and the Dead Sea illustrate, it now requires preserving scarce natural resources and ensuring their equitable distribution among conflicting needs.

Isn t it possible, then, that rather than causing a Great Depression, significant shrinkage of the financial sector, particularly if facilitated by an improved regulatory structure, might actually enhance efficiency and growth?

The sub prime mortgage loan problem triggered a drop in some financial institutions key lines of business, particularly their opaque but extremely profitable derivatives businesses. Some shrinkage of the industry is inevitable.

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I give you Congo, which was high, Ghana lower. And Kenya even lower.

As Israel continues its blockade on the strip, humanitarian conditions dip lower and lower.

Lower consumption as a result of lower activity shall not be taken into consideration

Common staff costs were lower than in 2002 for reasons of lower staff turnover.

And now, four large panels this is upper left upper right lower left lower right.

So, with lower growth expectations, the trills would likely have a much lower price now.

Others have lower expectations.

(c) Because these emigrants paid contributions for lower professional categories, so that they were much lower.

The long term consequences for women were lower earnings, lower pensions and greater vulnerability in old age.

Lower window below other windows

Lower window beneath other windows

Now it is 150 lower.

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They will also try to lower Japan s dependence on exports and rethink sending production facilities to lower wage countries.

Lower interest rates can thus lead to lower consumption in surplus countries, thereby increasing the supply of loanable funds.

Sami comes from a lower class.

The lower court rejected the application.

The central bank would lower interest rates households would spend in anticipation of lower taxes and business confidence would rise.

This clock keeps time to a lower resolution (perhaps 1 second) and generally, a lower accuracy (often 0.025 versus 0.01 ).

Closed cup testers normally give lower values for the flash point than open cup (typically lower) and are a better approximation to the temperature at which the vapor pressure reaches the lower flammable limit.

The dental formula of slow lorises is , meaning that on each side of the mouth there are two upper (maxillary) and lower (mandibular) incisors, one upper and lower canine tooth, three upper and lower premolars, and three upper and lower molars, giving a total of 36 permanent teeth.

Maintaining the same number of scan lines per field (and frame), the lower line rate must yield a lower field rate.

Layla came from a lower class town.

In China and India, they were lower.

Harassment was lower and communities were closer.

Textbooks are being drafted for lower grades.

(j) Upper lower flammability or explosive limits

If the ice cover simultaneously shrinks and gets thinner, then the shrinkage in area is first steady but then accelerates towards the end, when the remaining ice becomes ever thinner and more vulnerable to melting. This is what I fear is happening now.

In addition to the money tied up by acquiring inventory, inventory also brings associated costs for warehouse space, for utilities, and for insurance to cover staff to handle and protect it from fire and other disasters, obsolescence, shrinkage (theft and errors), and others.

In the process, it will shed lower value added jobs in its export sector as production moves to lower cost developing countries.

As seen from table 7, the lower labour costs in developing countries and countries in transition more than offset lower labour productivity, resulting in production costs that are significantly lower in these countries than in developed countries.

Third, in response to slower growth and lower inflation (owing partly to lower commodity prices), the world s major central banks pursued another round of unconventional monetary easing lower policy rates, forward guidance, quantitative easing (QE), and credit easing.

Noting that in some economies in transition this progress has been slower, resulting in lower aggregate development levels and lower per capita income,