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Poe correctly predicted that Longfellow's reputation and style of poetry would decline, concluding that " We grant him high qualities, but deny him the Future ".
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.
While he accomplished much as an important public literary and political figure with a worldwide reputation, his very creative work did decline.
The town experienced a decline in the early years of the 21st century, both economically and in terms of its reputation.
The town's economic decline around this time and subsequently was felt more sharply because of a spate of bad news which tarnished the reputation of Boston.
During the Middle Ages and Enlightenment, English cuisine enjoyed an excellent reputation ; its decline can be traced back to the move away from the land and increasing urbanisation of the populace during the Industrial Revolution.
This reputation impeded attempts to revive the area, utilising the large amount of land available following the decline of the railway goods yard to the north of the station and the many other vacant premises in the area.
The docks at Leith underwent severe decline in the post-Second World War period, with the area gaining a reputation for roughness and prostitution, with an official ' tolerance zone ' until 2001.
Frank writes that this revisionism has unfairly influenced younger listeners and critics, who may have not heard as many of Toscanini's performances as older listeners, and as a result, Toscanini's reputation, extraordinarily high in the years that he was active, has suffered a decline.
After his death, however, Cristofori's reputation went into decline.
After his death, the rise of stern Neoclassicism and the post-revolutionary decline of royal absolutism led to the slow decline of the Tiepolo style, but had failed to dent his reputation.
The decline was hastened by Stephenson's talking to the press in 1926-1927 about government officials who had accepted payments and bribes from the Klan ; the organization lost its reputation as law-abiding and upholding morality.
Soon after his death, his philosophical reputation went into a sharp decline.
However, Hurley's reputation has experienced significant decline and is a far weaker figure in Lake's eyes.
Carew's reputation, however, experienced a slow but steady decline during the second half of the seventeenth century.
The decline in this ability following the Baroque era is perhaps the reason why the da capo aria ultimately acquired a reputation as a musically dull form.
Despite the decline in Ramón ’ s reputation, two notable voices in particular declared their admiration.
But at the Battle of Gettysburg, Ewell's military reputation started a long decline.
Early in the decade, CA was forced to address criticism of the company ( lack of strategic focus, incompatibilities among its disparate product lines, a reputation for poor customer service, plus failure to win a significant share in application software and DBMS markets ) as well as a sharp decline in its stock price, which fell more than 50 % during 1990.
Meadow's reputation went into decline with a series of legal reverses for his theories, and the damage was confirmed in July 2005 when he was struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council for tendering misleading evidence.
His reputation was already on the decline before releasing two failures, a remake of The Wicked Lady ( 1983 ) with Faye Dunaway and the generic thriller Scream for Help ( 1984 ).
However, in recent years, the club's appearance and reputation have been in decline.
While his government left a $ 60 million budget surplus and earned a good reputation for promoting social programs and protecting the environment, it had suffered from a decline in the territory's economy due to a fall in world metal prices and the closure of several mines.

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In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.
Polyphosphates gave renewed life to soap products at a time when surfactants were a threat though expensive, and these same polyphosphates spelled the decline of soap usage when the synergism between polyphosphates and synthetic detergent actives was recognized and exploited.
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.
The Achill Mission began to decline slowly after Nangle was moved from Achill and was finally closed in the 1880s.
The ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan over the ethnic Armenian-dominated region of Nagorno-Karabakh ( which was part of Soviet Azerbaijan ) and the breakup of the centrally directed economic system of the former Soviet Union contributed to a severe economic decline in the early 1990s.
The Country Life Movement was a loose grouping of social reformers, church leaders, and urban progressives ; they sought solutions for rural economic decline, social stagnation, and the depopulation of the countryside.
Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.
He was a skilled political administrator and leader, and effectively reversed the decline of the Teutonic Order, until he betrayed it by transforming the order's lands into his own duchy, secularizing it in the process.
It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.
Inheriting a collapsing empire and faced with constant warfare during his reign against both the Seljuq Turks in Asia Minor and the Normans in the western Balkans, Alexios was able to halt the Byzantine decline and begin the military, financial, and territorial recovery known as the Komnenian restoration.
While Greek states had in the past often been ruled by tyrants, this was a form of arbitrary government that was on the decline.
By the 5th century AD, Rome was in decline and the Roman predecessor town of Alicante, known as Lucentum ( Latin ), was more or less under the control of the Visigothic warlord Theudimer.
It was founded by the Carthaginians as a trading station, and after a period of decline became under the Romans one of the more important towns in the province of Hispania Baetica.
Nevertheless, a 2009 systematic review and meta-analysis of trials in people diagnosed with schizophrenia found that less than half ( 41 %) showed any therapeutic response to an antipsychotic, compared to 24 % on placebo, and that there was a decline in treatment response over time, and possibly a bias in which trial results were published.
After the car factory decline, it was used by the M. O. D.
Largest decline was noted in Outback NT, while Kimberley and Pilbara showed population increase during the same period.
Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.
But this was just the beginning of the decline.
At the same time there was a significant though somewhat gradual decline in the number of colonies maintained by beekeepers.
Despite the decline of the British Empire, the Army was still deployed around the world, fighting wars in Aden, Indonesia, Cyprus, Kenya and Malaya.
By the early 19th century, Kanem-Bornu was clearly an empire in decline, and in 1808 Fulani warriors conquered Ngazargamu.

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