Non-Catholic Enrollment There are 55,295 students in the Brooklyn Diocese's schools, with about 13 percent non-Catholic, compared with 8 percent a decade ago.

Earnings from continuing operations declined 11 percent, compared with the corresponding period last year, when AT&T earned $1.53 billion, or 96 cents a share.

Nationally, the caseload has already declined 6 percent, compared with the average number of cases in the 1995 fiscal year, dropping to 4.6 million.

"I'd have to say that we're off 10 to 12 percent compared to peak years," he said, "which is a big number in this business because, as you know, your costs are fixed."

Since the the fund began in December 1987, it has returned an annualized 19.5 percent, compared with 19.3 percent for the S.& P..

Mr. Bush's approval rating has remained high, at 56 percent compared with 61 percent a year after he took office in 1998.

Voter turnout was 51.5 percent, compared with the 43.1 percent in in October 1991, showing that many Poles wanted to express their dissatisfaction with the Ms. Suchocka's policies.

Burglaries have decreased by nearly 12 percent citywide, compared with the same period last year.

Per capita income rose an estimated 6.3 percent, compared to 5.2 percent for the rest of the country.

Seventy-four percent of those polled, compared with a national average of 86 percent, said their service was excellent, very good or just good.