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In declining to talk about his own drug experience, George W. made the interesting point that he didn't want to give young people today the unfortunate (though accurate) impression that you could do whatever he did when young and still end up governor of Texas.
3b) shows a slightly synergistic tendency and declining neutrality with distance.
During much of the 1990's the number of active boilermakers had been declining due to very low employment levels resulting from very low activity in the utility power plant construction business.
Elderly people show an increased incidence of infectious, neoplastic and inflammatory diseases that may be linked to declining functional competence of the peripheral T cells [ 1 2 3 4 5 ] . At the cellular level, this decline in immune response is reflected in aged T cell
Billy steps up to take his undeserved punishment, declining to let others risk their necks by trying to help him.