Two of the biggest killers, heart disease and stroke, continued their decade-long decline.
After more than a decade-long decline, is heart bypass surgery poised for a comeback?
In Japan, a decade-long economic decline is deepening, and yesterday, the Japanese yen fell to a seven-year low against the dollar.
The truck-based vehicles' increased popularity also helped reverse the decade-long decline in Americans' per-capita consumption of gas that began in the mid-1970's.
Teen use of marijuana had been on a decade-long decline.
On the other hand, he says, Japan will no longer get Clinton-like lectures about how to reverse its decade-long economic decline.
They would provide a surge of new money after a slow, decade-long decline in weapons spending.
Movie attendance dropped about 4.2 percent for the year, according to Hollywood.com, continuing a decade-long decline.
The movement, which includes people and the businesses for which they work, has reversed a decade-long decline in the rural population, according to the Census Bureau.
That session led to a decade-long decline in Pentagon budgets as well as a round of industry consolidations.