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8 With the personal saving rate around zero or negative, economists have questioned how to interpret the decline; see question 1.7.
As for the wonderful new ex-Soviet Union you mention, I wonder what you make of such facts as the significant decline in the Russian life expectancy (virtually unique in the world), hordes of homeless people, unemployed people, people working at jobs who haven't been paid in six months.
She condemns America's moral decline with the smugness of a Charlton Heston, but her narcissism and button pushing skills give the early Madonna a run for her money.
In effect, it's a way of saying that the venerable institution of the shotgun marriage is in decline: Teen-age girls who get pregnant are less likely to get married than were teen-age girls who got pregnant during the 1980s.
An article laments the decline of Dukakis Democrats.