The unemployment rate slipped to 9.5 percent, from 9.6 percent.

Over the last 20 years, banks' share of the financial service market has slipped to about 26 percent from more than 40 percent, he said.

The home ownership rate here has slipped to 72 percent from 74 percent.

"Britain's block as a proportion of the whole, though still strong, has slipped from around 50 percent to the 20s."

But the firm's market share slipped to 17.2 percent in 1991, from 17.8 percent the previous year.

The poverty rate has slipped from 14 percent in 1981 to 13.5 percent last year.

But the newspapers' share slipped from 26.8 percent the year before.

The average rate for $50 million of 182-day paper slipped to 6.269 percent from 6.3434 percent.

They've slipped from 6 percent 20 years ago to about 3.5 percent.

Chicago remains the second largest market, but its share has slipped to 12.5 percent from 13.5 percent.