their technology has fallen behind their competitors' elsewhere in the world

As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn't good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

As wages have fallen, the share of young men living in the home of their parents has risen.

As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

Employed young men are much less likely to live at home than young men without a job, and employment among young men has fallen significantly in recent decades.

figures show the number of male nurses has fallen in the last three years.

Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content; instead, her energy sparked a period of experimentation and renewal.

So the next time you consider eating fallen food, the odds are in your favor that you can eat it without getting sick.

Some raised more than twice their goals, but others have fallen short of reaching even modest targets.

The man who conceives Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his expectations.

They also reported that 87% of people asked either would eat or had eaten food fallen on the floor.

And though Hu Jintao and the rest of the Chinese leadership aren't inclined to lecture visiting Presidents, he might gently hint that Beijing is getting a little nervous about the value of the dollar-which has fallen 15% since March, in large part because of increasing fears that America's debt load is becoming unmanageable.

Meanwhile, Europe has fallen prey to a different ideological trap: the belief that European governments would always have infinite resources and could continue borrowing as if there were no tomorrow.

The evidence shows that a large number of universities have fallen off the back of the pack, a few perform strongly and the rest chase the leaders.

They found that implicit bias has fallen by as much as 90% compared with the level found in a similar study in 2006.

They have fallen prey to wolves.

After all, the percentage of Americans who say a college degree is "very important" has fallen drastically in the last 5-6 years.

As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn't good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

By 2008, the figure had fallen into the single 33 digits.

This lawyer had fallen victim to the "don'ts syndrome"—a form of negative goals setting.