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We might still be seeing some small declines in manufacturing overall, but even that's a mix. This year you'll see more hiring in nondurable manufacturing sectors such as in chemicals, in rubber, in plastics, in paper.

Ivan Krastev

Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been, the more equal they have been becoming. Now we have the reverse tendency. The spread of democracy now is very much accompanied by the increase in inequality.

While the overall numbers in January did not show a sizable increase, job gains in most sectors overshadowed a noticeable decline in government employment and we are now in the fifth consecutive month of job growth.

We've had pullbacks in the price over the last few months, and the prices have always rebounded, so there's some wariness. You need to see a more sustained decline in prices over a longer period of time.

We already were expecting a 5,000-job decline in manufacturing employment in May.

There is a lot of nervousness about gasoline after the huge decline in supplies the last five weeks.

We expect that funds held 17-18 million ounces of gross long positions as of Tuesday. If the net long position is more than this then we will become even more bearish; only a release that shows that the net long positions declined from the 15 million ounces reported last week would make us positive about the short-term outlook for gold.

We expect further declines in 2006 and subsequent years as pent-up demand is fulfilled and as interest rates rise over the medium term.

We're doing about what we expected. Going into the reporting season, the estimate were for a decline of 18 percent and we said we thought we'd end up about down 15 but may end up down 16.

We saw the impact of the recession in 2002 and 2003, then saw a smaller decline in 2004. But in 2005, we started to see job increases, and that's a positive sign.

At present, no decline in housing construction is evident in the data,

There's still going to be mushroom theft in this area, but I expect to see a significant decline now.

The total number of hours worked in the private sector by production labor declined even though there were more of those jobs. That tells me that we're seeing a shift not just away from manufacturing jobs but toward jobs with shorter hours.

I fear that with the decline in incomes, many people will downsize, ... And some people may not be able to stay where they are. It is going to have a serious impact on us.

In London (the worst) probably is over. The London economy, in our estimates, declined at end of last year and has actually picked up since then, ... For the rest of the U.K., I think probably the worst period is the first half of this year.

In a number of areas, particularly on the coasts, they have a high risk of price declines in the next two years.

If the population is growing, then the decline is even more significant.

If you look at the historical volatilities of the rand you'll find they have declined through the year.

If you look at the historical volatilities of the rand you'll find that they have declined through the year.

If you look at our labor force, despite a slight decline in the past month, our labor force is still the fourth fastest growing in the U.S..

It's a great number obviously, and that's a sigh of relief, but I wouldn't put too much into the decline of the core,

It should be a positive for the market. The decline was more than expected. It probably has to do with the drop in energy prices that we've seen. To come in down 0.7 is less inflationary pressure.

It's been a steady decline over the past 28 years that I've been with the agency.

Mike May

It's been a fairly steady decline since the 1980s.

It's kind of hard to be shocked by the magnitude of these declines when they're declining every single quarter.

It's likely we got a decline in sales. We've had a drop in vehicle sales and it also looks like back-to-school was on the disappointing side.

It looks like the decline has been generated largely because of excess optimism in the housing construction market a month ago which was not sustained.

In the end, he did not fully validate the recent decline in the market's Fed tightening expectations.

In the downturn I foresee, no market will be immune. But New York will weather the decline better than other markets.

In the past three years there's been a decline in giving to human service-type organizations. People need to step up to the plate and give extra.

If the lower wholesale price is sustained, you can expect to start seeing at pumps a decline from $2.99 a gallon to about (the) $2.80s by Thursday.

I think a 0.2 percent decline in economic growth due Katrina's impact on oil and the regional economy is a realistic assumption,

Mark Hudson

Higher farm prices enabled vegetable and melon growers to post the record revenues as overall production declined 11 percent.