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Although publishing itself has declined in importance, one legacy of the industry is the number of bookstores selling second-hand, antiquarian, and new books.
Between 1970 and the present, the economy's output of manufactures roughly doubled; but, because of increases in productivity, employment actually declined slightly.
They let others tease out the implications of their story for them, connecting the dots among Scaife, Starr, and Hale : The billionaire endowed a position for Starr at Pepperdine University (which Starr has subsequently declined) and then bankrolled Hale, Starr's chief witness.
The Department of Justice declined to delay his removal pending further investigation of this new information.
He declined.