The death rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled has been fairly flat since 1992, and last year stood at 1.83.

The magazine's circulation has been flat since 2000, though it enjoyed a recent uptick last year to about 1.3 million subscribers.

Our operating budget has been flat since 1993, and at the same time we have 29 new embassies to support.

But this shortfall was not enough to raise the jobless rate, which has been flat since late last spring.

It said that, with stocks excluded, the index has been flat to slightly lower since February.

And retail sales have been flat since July, after spurting in early summer.

On the down side, however, he said, "The global diaper business has been flat since the first of the year."

At four stations, revenues have virtually been flat since 1984.

The economy is now shown to have been only flat overall since the third quarter of 2010.

The department said orders have been relatively flat since the beginning of 1989.