Venezuela s circle of friends in the region is shrinking.

This shrinking of the world has been as sudden as it has been profound.

This contraction of the job market has had a greater impact on youth than on adults.

As emphasized in previous reports, the possibilities for cross borrowing are becoming ever more limited.

A sharp contraction in jobs and labor income has many negative consequences on both the economy and financial markets.

Policy space, which was shrinking, was essential for developing countries to become able to, as was often stressed, take primary responsibility for their own development.

Xenophobic populism is stalking democracies in Europe. Social democratic parties are shrinking, while right wing demagogues promise to protect Western values from the Islamic hordes.

The reason is simple Japan s overall growth rates have been quite low, but growth was achieved despite a rapidly shrinking working age population.

In times of crisis, SWFs not only invest a smaller proportion of their portfolios abroad and divest from some foreign holdings, but the total value of their investments tends to shrink as well.

A concept known as the size principle, allows for a gradation of muscle force during weak contraction to occur in small steps, which then become progressively larger when greater amounts of force are required.

With no industrial good that still requires a large scale labor force and the communications and services industries unable to fill the gap employment is shrinking and economic growth is stagnating.

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.

Corporations were wielding increased influence, consumer choices were becoming more limited and unhealthy dietary practices were spreading, leading to a worldwide rise in non communicable diseases.

Patients with type 1 HRS are usually ill, may have low blood pressure, and may require therapy with drugs to improve the strength of heart muscle contraction (inotropes) or other drugs to maintain blood pressure (vasopressors).

Today's course of action in which we neglect the coming squeeze in global oil supplies, rely too heavily on Middle East oil, and ignore the environmental consequences of fossil fuels is reaching a dead end.

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 2002, the US Census Bureau reported that health insurance coverage, considered a prerequisite of adequate medical care, was not only eroding but would likely worsen over the next several years.

The Committee restates its view that, as more staff become trained in mission related skills, the requirement for such training should decrease, and with it the requirement for mission specific training related travel, particularly in missions that are no longer growing or are in the process of downsizing.