In July 2008 the price of oil peaked and began to decline and Alberta's economy soon followed suit, with unemployment doubling within a year.

At menopause, the breasts can decrease in size when the levels of circulating estrogen decline, followed by the withering of the adipose tissue and the milk glands.

Further promotion within the company followed, but the business began to decline, and in 1865 Eiffel, seeing no future there, resigned and set up as an independent consulting engineer.

This ambivalence appears to underlie his presentation of human history in Works and Days, where he depicts a golden period when life was easy and good, followed by a steady decline in behaviour and happiness through the silver, bronze and Iron Ages – except he inserts a heroic age between the last two, though representing its warlike men as better than their bronze predecessors.

The return to growth and record premiums generated during the year followed two years of decline in real terms.

But this period of power was followed by one of decline.

The decline of sea otters followed a decline in harbour seal and Steller sea lion populations, the killer whale's preferred prey, which in turn may be substitutes for their original prey, now decimated by industrial whaling.

Over the course of the 1988 – 89 television season, his TV show suffered a decline in viewership, resulting in many markets downgrading its time slot ; even flagship station WWOR moved Downey's program from its original 9: 00 PM slot to 11: 30 PM in January 1989, where it was followed by the then-new Arsenio Hall Show.

A steep commercial decline followed the evacuation of Gan in March 1976.

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There was a slow decline between about 1800 and 1870, followed by a catastrophic decline between 1870 and 1890.

In Stocks for the Long Run, Siegel mentions that since 1948, ten recessions were preceded by a stock market decline, by a lead time of 0 to 13 months ( average 5. 7 months ), while ten stock market declines of greater than 10 % in the DJIA were not followed by a recession.

After the breakup of the western Roman Empire, the study of rhetoric continued to be central to the study of the verbal arts ; but the study of the verbal arts went into decline for several centuries, followed eventually by a gradual rise in formal education, culminating in the rise of medieval universities.

The 2nd century saw the peak of the Roman Empire, followed by its gradual decline during the period of Late Antiquity, the rise of Christianity and the Great Migrations.

The peaceful reign of Aldfrith, Ecgfrith's half-brother and successor, did something to limit the damage done, but it is from this point that Northumbria's power began to decline, and chronic instability followed Aldfrith's death in 704.

He proposed that " Evidence has been accumulating in many fields of investigation pointing to a notably warm climate in many parts of the world, that lasted a few centuries around A. D. 1000 – 1200, and was followed by a decline of temperature levels till between 1500 and 1700 the coldest phase since the last ice age occurred.

This was followed by a fairly steady decline in teen sexual activity ( and teen pregnancy ) from about 1991 to the present day, at a time when many presumed the opposite was occurring.

This period of accomplishments was followed by a long but slow decline, marked only by the moderate successes of La punizione ( Venice, 1854 ) Il saltimbanco ( Rome, 1858 ) and Niccolò de ' Lapi ( Florence, 1873 ).

Hurry Sundown signaled a rather precipitous decline in Preminger's reputation, as it was followed by several other films which were critical and commercial failures, including Skidoo ( 1968 ), a failed attempt at a hip sixties comedy ( and Groucho Marx's last film ), and Rosebud ( 1975 ), a terrorism thriller which was also widely ridiculed.

The period which followed the riots of 1853 has been referred to by one historian as the period of " decline and disorder ".

Its slow decline starting at the end of the fourteenth century followed internal discord and revolts by vassal states, one of which, Songhai, flourished as an empire between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Hyolith abundance and diversity attain a maximum in the Cambrian, followed by a progressive decline up to their Permian extinction.

Several communities in Ireland, particularly in the west of the country, were wiped out as a result of the Great Famine in the latter half of the 19th century, and the years of economic decline that followed.

that there would be a similar decline in the market values of other automotive and chemical stocks, with similar losses to the stockholders of those companies ; ;

Alessandri appealed to those who believed the social question should be addressed, to those worried by the decline in nitrate exports during World War I, and to those weary of presidents dominated by Congress.

This difference indicates a decline of 18, 019 members and a loss of 68 congregations across those three years.

However, a referendum on devolution in 1979 was unsuccessful as it did not achieve the necessary support of 40 per cent of the electorate ( despite a small majority of those who voted supporting the proposal ) and the SNP went into electoral decline during the 1980s.

This period has been described as both a natural extension of the art of Andrea del Sarto, Michelangelo, and Raphael, as well as a decline of those same artists ' classicizing achievements.

In this model, a tipping point is eventually reached at which the network effects of the challenger dominate those of the former incumbent, and the incumbent is forced into an accelerating decline, whilst the challenger takes over the incumbent's former position.

Rural flight is exacerbated when the population decline leads to the loss of rural services such as stores and schools, which leads to greater loss of population as people leave to seek those features.

Secondary progressive MS ( sometimes called " galloping MS ") describes around 65 % of those with an initial relapsing-remitting MS, who then begin to have progressive neurologic decline between acute attacks without any definite periods of remission.

Progressive relapsing MS describes those individuals who, from onset, have a steady neurologic decline but also suffer clear superimposed attacks.

Given the ensuing decline in world commodity prices, countries heavily dependent on the export of raw materials such as oil were among those most severely hit.

It has also divided opinion in the town, between those who hoped it would help to revitalise the town, and others who feared that local traders would be unable to compete, leading to a further decline of Shepton Mallet's high street.

Fearing another postwar decline that would rival the depression years, Governor Earl Warren initiated public works projects similar to those of the New Deal to capitalize on wartime tax surpluses and provide jobs for returning veterans.

The riots were for related reasons to those of Jack Cade and his followers, however the decline of the cloth trade may have also been influential.

Segregation increased most in those cities with the greatest black in-migration and then crippling economic decline, epitomized in cities like Gary, Indiana.

Unlike the suburbs on the Missouri side of the metro area, those in Metro-East are typically separated by agriculture, or otherwise undeveloped land left after the decline of industry.

The report continued, suggesting Category A districts should be the State's priority in relation to providing services through Irish and development schemes, and that those areas which fell into Category C which would witness a further decline in the usage of Irish should lose their Gaeltacht status.

Indeed, with fear and terror I imagine the time, when those dark iconoclasts come to power: with their raw fists they will batter all marble images of my beloved world of art, they will ruin all those fantastic anecdotes that the poets loved so much, they will chop down my Laurel forests and plant potatoes and, oh !, the herbs chandler will use my Book of Songs to make bags for coffee and snuff for the old women of the future – oh !, I can foresee all this and I feel deeply sorry thinking of this decline threatening my poetry and the old world order-And yet, I freely confess, the same thoughts have a magical appeal upon my soul which I cannot resist ….

While Meadowlands prospered and grew due to the support it provided to the region's farms, the steady decline in those same farms ( and the large families they supported ) during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s heralded the beginning of the town's gradual decline.

However, when Interstate 40 bypassed the village in 1981, the local economy went into a decline, leading most of those businesses to shut down.

However, when Interstate 40 bypassed the small village to the north in May, 1970 and received only one exit from the freeway, the local economy went into a decline due to the bypass and the concurrent closure of nearby Clinton-Sherman Air Force base at Burns Flat, leading most of those businesses to shut down.

Nevertheless, critics have noted few signs of a decline in Smetana's powers in these works, while his increasing proficiency in the Czech language meant that his settings of the language are much superior to those of his earlier operas.