The Giants struggled to a 6 – 9 record in the strike-marred 1987 season, due largely to a decline in the running game, as Morris managed only 658 yards behind an injury-riddled offensive line.

" One of Johnson's aides, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., has countered that " from 1963 when Lyndon Johnson took office until 1970 as the impact of his Great Society programs were felt, the portion of Americans living below the poverty line dropped from 22. 2 percent to 12. 6 percent, the most dramatic decline over such a brief period in this century.

She was the last of the Macedonian line, and upon her death, the empire entered a period of decline that lasted until the accession of Alexios I Komnenos in 1081.

However, the introduction of the ironclad frigate in about 1859 led swiftly to the decline of the steam-assisted ships of the line, though the ironclad warship became the ancestor of the 20th-century battleship, whose very designation is itself a contraction of the phrase " line-of-battle ship.

The line was closed in 1954 following a decline in its use after the destruction of the Crystal Palace in 1936 and due to slippage in the structure of the embankment.

The fall line causes rivers in the area to decline rapidly towards sea level, making it a good location for textile mills in the past.

While the relocation of the county seat caused a decline in Currie's economy for a period, the building of a branch line from Bingham Lake into the village gave the community a real boost.

The towns location near the railroad line has helped to keep industry going in the area, although in recent years the town has seen a decline in industry.

By 1911, another line diverted traffic once served by the Columbia Southern and the town begin to decline.

When the Missouri-Pacific railroad was being constructed four miles north of Boston in the summer of 1876, it was clear to many businessmen in Boston ( now Old Boston ) that their town would suffer a serious decline as a consequence of its distance from the line.

By the 1920s the rail line had been dismantled and the mill industry was in decline, but Medford's proximity to Philadelphia and Camden County allowed for the township's growth to continue as many families moved from the city and into a more rural area.

He rebuilt most of the locks and staunches in the 1830s, resulting in increased trade in coal and general merchandise which originated from Kings Lynn, but success was short lived, as the Eastern Union Railway opened a line from Ipswich to Bury St Edmunds in 1846, and decline was immediate.

Tolls reached a record £ 1, 728 in 1845, when over 15, 000 tonnes of coal were carried, but the arrival of the railways, in the form of a line from Norwich to Brandon, and an extension of the Eastern Counties Railway from Newport to Brandon, both opened on the same day in 1845, started the rapid decline of the navigation.

The Ipswich to Stowmarket railway line opened in 1846, and with it came a serious decline in traffic on the navigation.

The line continued to be used to transport goods until the 1960s, when a combination of road haulage and a decline in industry around the village lead to closure of the station in 1965.

If disc galaxies had mass distributions which were similar to the observed distribution of stars and gas, the rotation curves velocities should decline at large distances ( dotted line A in illustration ), in the same way as other systems with most of their mass in the centre, such as the Solar System of planets or the moons of Jupiter, following the prediction of Kepler's Laws.

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Thus, if services that had been classified as telecommunications services are re-classified as information services, as recently occurred for high-speed digital subscriber line (“ DSL ”) services, then the universal service assessment base will decline and carriers that depend on universal service funding may see a decline in support.

One line of evidence used to support the Stone Age diet is the decline in human health and body mass that occurred with the adoption of agriculture, at the end of the Paleolithic era.

Although the Ashikaga line continued through this seventh shogun, the power of the shoguns gradually eroded and the shogunate fell into decline.

) After nearly 30 years of decline, Springfield has since about 2006 experienced a cultural and economic resurgence, catalyzed by billions of dollars in private and public investment, including the funded construction of the United States's first high-speed bullet-train, known as the Knowledge Corridor intercity rail line as well as a sharp decreases in crime and new festivals that have renewed the city's traditionally robust civic pride.

However, later in the Renaissance the condottieri line of battle still deployed the grand armoured knight and mediæval weapons and tactics after most European powers had begun employing professional standing armies of pikemen and musketeers -- this helped to contribute to their eventual decline and destruction.

The most recent generation of Melburnians are expected to see a sharp decline in housing and property ownership in line with unaffordability.

I look for TV sales and production to be approximately equal at 5.7 million sets for the year, but I look for some decline in radios from the high rate in 1961 to more nearly the 1959 level of 15.0 - 15.5 million sets.

Commerce Department officials were inclined to explain the April sales decline as a reaction from a surge of consumer buying in March.

After the decline of the Ilkhanate from 1335 – 1353, the Mongol Empire's legacy in the region was the Uyghur Eretna Dynasty that was overthrown by Kadi Burhan al-Din in 1381.

But Grand makes an unexpected recovery, and deaths from the plague start to decline.

The Achill Mission began to decline slowly after Nangle was moved from Achill and was finally closed in the 1880s.

Since 2002 the Victorian Industry has seen a significant decline in catches, with the total allowable catch ( TAC ) reduced from 1440 tonnes to 787 tonnes for the 2011 / 12 fishing year.

Warfare between city states had led to a population decline, from which Akkad provided a temporary respite.

Don DeLillo's Underworld ( 1997 ) is also set in the Bronx and offers a perspective on the decline of the area from the 1950s onwards.

Under modern canon law, a man who is appointed a cardinal must accept ordination as a bishop, unless he already is one, or seek special permission from the pope to decline such ordination.

26, 000 individuals remain, it began a sudden population decline from around 1980 and is now classified as vulnerable.

This decline includes the cumulative losses from all factors, such as urbanization, pesticide use, tracheal and Varroa mites, and commercial beekeepers ' retiring and going out of business.

Maland has identified it as triggering Chaplin's decline in popularity, and writes, " Henceforth, no movie fan would ever be able to separate the dimension of politics from the star image of Charles Spencer Chaplin.

Pressure from London sugar merchants fearing a decline in sugar prices forced a series of negotiations with the Spanish over colonial territories.

The competence between papers for having more cartoons than the rest from the mid-1920s, the growth of large-scale newspaper advertising during most of the thirties, paper rationing during World War II, the decline on news readership ( as television newscasts began to be more common ) and inflation ( which has caused higher printing costs ) beginning during the fifties and sixties made Sunday strips being published on smaller and more diverse formats.

According to the Census of Canada, the population of Cape Breton Island in 2011 was 135, 974, a 4. 4 % decline from 142, 298 in 2006, and a 14. 1 % decline from 158, 260 in 1996.

Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.

It was this same bureaucracy that later prevented the Ming government from being able to adapt to changes in society, and eventually led to its decline.

This tension is best exhibited in the Cakkavatti Sihanada Sutta ( Digha Nikaya 26 of the Sutta Pitaka of the Pāli Canon ), the story of humanity's decline from a golden age in the past.

In the first quarter of 2008, CRTs retook the # 2 technology position in North America from plasma, due to the decline and consolidation of plasma display manufacturers.

It mostly ate the seeds of forest shrubs and other plants ( such as thistles ) and also ate fruits ( often from orchards by the time of its decline ).

A study from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, however, found there was no indication of population decline, and suggested, as pelt prices were not increasing, the decrease in harvest was likely due to decreasing demand, and not increasing scarcity ( where pelt prices would go up.