1.   If taken to extremes, such policies carried within them the potential to precipitate a catastrophic decline into hyperinflation.

2.   Black, pink and green abalone also have experienced catastrophic declines in recent years, and extinction is a definite possibility for them.

3.   But Ottawa claims that the catastrophic decline of commercial fish stocks as the result of overfishing gives it moral authority to act as guardian of the deep.

4.   But the prairie chicken is experiencing a catastrophic decline here in the Flint Hills, the core of its range.

5.   He accuses environmental groups of perpetuating the myth of a catastrophic decline in elephant numbers across Africa.

6.   In the five years since he became chairman, Volkswagen has recovered from its catastrophic decline and become a huge money machine.

7.   Many Russians hold him largely responsible for the catastrophic decline of the economy and the crony capitalism that has emerged in place of the promised free markets.

8.   The catastrophic decline was caused by a chain of events that began with humans, Hughes wrote.

9.   The major and underappreciated factor is not the increase in the number of low scores -- it is the catastrophic decline in the number of high scores.

10.   Its enterprises are caught in a web of unpaid debts and its government is crippled by a catastrophic decline in tax revenues.