| 1 | The number of tigers has reduced abruptly in the last fifty years. | |
| 2 | My income has dropped and none of my new projects were doing any good. | |
| 3 | But as the amount of physical mail decreases, so too have the earnings from Postal Service operations. | |
| 4 | The latest mistaken prediction was that the internet--a simple way of sending electronic correspondence--would precipitate a sharp decline in snail mail. | |
| 5 | As I have been writing for the past year, the rich have been hammeredby this crisis, largely because of the plunge in the value of theirinvestments and real estate. |