New orders also fell, to 16 from 25 in April.

And the man had those explicit orders to fall back on.

Orders had fallen in the first two months of the year.

These orders had fallen 49.2 percent in the previous month.

Compared with September 1994, however, total orders fell 6 percent.

Domestic orders for the same period fell 2.7 percent, to $1.83 billion.

Over all, orders for the six months fell to $744.7 billion, down 1.5 percent from the comparable 1989 period.

He shouted orders and half of the Company fell into line.

But with economic growth slowing, new orders fell 22 percent last year to $2.81 billion.

Without this decline, total orders would have fallen just 1.3 percent.