Newspaper circulation has dropped precipitously in the last decade.

The literary reading public lost 5 percent of its girth between 1982 and 1992; another 14 percent dropped away in the following decade.

Statistics show that white enrollment in the public schools dropped to 30 percent in the last decade, from about 53 percent.

It predicted that the number of franchises, now around 25,000, would drop to 18,000 in the decade.

The city's population dropped 14 percent, to 370,000, in the last decade.

The percentage of officers living in the city has dropped in the last decade, to 54 percent from 60 percent.

The proportion of the employed citizens working in agriculture has dropped sharply in the last decade.

Dr. Robbins said the campus had lost 36 full-time employees, dropping from 431 to 395, in the last decade while enrollment had grown slightly.

Segregation continued to drop in the last decade, with 522 out of 658 housing markets recording a decline.

While domestic consumption has dropped steadily in the past decade, cigarette exports have more than doubled.