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Three recent highly publicized papers—a trifecta detailing troubled waters—call attention to overfishing's contributions to the dramatic declines in global fisheries.
Later, new managerial and tactical innovations seemed to accelerate declines in crime.
While declines in AIDS mortality in the industrialized world have been impressive [6,7,8], many of these success stories have been accompanied by a resurgence in HIV incidence due to increasing risk behavior as emphasis shifted from prevention to treatment in the 1990s [9,10,11].
Sexual-harrassment law may be dangerously broad and vague, as Rosen says, but if this is not considered sexual harrassment, it surely ought to be--even if there is no quid pro quo and even if he backs off and zips up when she declines.
This union of significant funding declines, restrictions and competition began to inexorably change the way that legal services in the United States operate.