This concern, too, now seems to have been allayed.

Now these have gradually shrunk to nothing.

Moreover, the capacity of Mexico s security machinery appears diminished.

All the green Latin American countries are moving towards smaller families.

His income was diminished by half after retirement.

Today, shared interests have shrunk and values have diverged.

But this did not happen instead, global real interest rates declined.

Yet the US deficits have persisted, and even risen, since then.

Allowing for changes in the number of people and their wealth, flood losses have actually decreased slightly.

Investment has fallen off sharply since, and has since staged only a very cautious recovery.

Banks with large exposure to Eastern Europe found their balance sheets impaired.

Barter and arrears (ie, debts between factories and firms), long major concerns, are also diminishing.

Global stockpiles have dropped from 68,000 warheads at the height of the Cold War to 20,000 today.

Russia s international reserves have fallen by 135 billion, and inflation has reached double digits.

Since I installed solar panels on my house, my energy bill has been cut in half.

Yet under President Vladimir Putin, with the economy growing robustly, these feelings have hardened, not diminished.

Global stockpiles have dropped from 68,000 warheads at the height of the Cold War to 20,000 today.

There can be no doubt that the West s military mastery and economic edge have been severely diminished recently. In 2000, America s GDP was eight times larger than China s today it is only twice as large.

There can be no doubt that the West s military mastery and economic edge have been severely diminished recently.

The imbalances were reduced temporarily as the global financial crisis caused private demand to drop in the US, the UK, and elsewhere.

As a share of total government spending, defense expenditure has fallen from 7.8 in 1998 to 6.1 in 2006.

The Bush administration raised military spending sharply as it went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and as it increased spending on national security at home, without ever explaining to the American people how this would be financed.

The military plus security budget soared by more than 2 of GNP, while tax revenues fell by much more.

Ocean temperatures increase more slowly than land temperatures because of the larger effective heat capacity of the oceans and because the ocean loses more heat by evaporation.

As a result, the benefits associated with deficit financed boosts to household income are now being diminished by the propensity to save and rebuild net worth.

Ironically, emissions have not decreased as a result of these policies, but are doing so now as the world economy moves into recession.

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In the past decade, YPF s reserves diminished significantly, along with those of most oil companies operating in Argentina, because investment in exploration was greatly reduced.

Thirty percent of global fish stocks have collapsed, up from roughly 15 in 1987, and the proportion of fish stocks classified as over exploited has doubled, to around 40 .

It is, of course, true that real long term interest rates have declined quite markedly not suddenly and not only recently, but at a fairly steady pace for more than twenty years.

In Ireland and Spain, private savings collapsed, and a housing bubble fueled excessive consumption, while in Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, and Italy, it was excessive fiscal deficits that exacerbated external imbalances.

Bush's election program promised big tax cuts, which he followed through on. When asked about the ballooning deficit, he explained that we have a deficit because tax revenues are down and that the tax relief package has helped the economy, and that the deficit would have been bigger without the tax relief package.

Debtor countries would regain their competitiveness their debt would diminish in real terms and, with the ECB under their control, the threat of default would disappear and their borrowing costs would fall to levels comparable to that in the United Kingdom.

When asked about the ballooning deficit, he explained that we have a deficit because tax revenues are down and that the tax relief package has helped the economy, and that the deficit would have been bigger without the tax relief package.

In the 1960 s and early 1970 s, disparities in purchasing power declined by about 40 , then stalled, while nominal income disparities fell by a similar margin from the mid 1970 s to 1990.