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Nowadays, the nation's financial resources and strength are increasingly exhausted, while social customs deteriorate day by day.
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The speaker says the nation is losing both its economic resources and its strength. At the same time, the standards and habits that shape social life are getting worse. Together, these points describe decline in material well-being and in the condition of society.
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