Word: falloff
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...market having stabilized to some degree, there's a good chance that consumers will keep spending. Americans are notoriously slow to adjust their lifestyles when the economy slows - they'd rather borrow more to keep living the good life they've been living. So we could see the small falloff in spending reverse itself without too much prodding...
...This unpredictable rending of confidence is one reason that recessions are so difficult to forecast. For this reason, changes in consumer confidence will require close scrutiny in the period ahead, especially after the steep falloff of recent months...
...seriousness of the returning soldiers coupled with their family obligations took them away from the normal social circles at Harvard. The administration encouraged the veterans to relax, and not without a certain wistfulness, noted a falloff...
...even the passage of time doesn't guarantee that a particular man's testosterone will decline to a level that much affects how he feels, at least not by middle age. Middle-age men who preserve the body weight they had in their 20s may have no falloff at all, while overweight adult men of any age tend to have lower testosterone levels. This means that a couple of the goombahs on The Sopranos are probably deficient, though maybe I should let you be the one to tell them that...
...falloff in Russian confidence may have been inevitable, since the early successes of the war came in the absence of much Chechen resistance. That allowed Moscow to project the idea of a "clean" war in which Russian casualties are kept to a minimum and the militants are routed by cannon and air power. "But in the end, Putin faces the same problems as his predecessors in the last war," says Meier. "You can pursue the strategy of bombing and shelling from a distance only so far. It hasn't worked in Grozny." It's now clear that the capital...