Britain's sustained decline in both domestic and foreign markets has triggered much research into the nature of commercial competitiveness.

Between 1991 and 1995, the cancer death rate fell by nearly 3 percent, the first sustained decline since national record-keeping began in the 1930s.

As a result, birth rates in many countries are now in a rapid, sustained decline.

"I don't think that the United States has an interest in the sustained and accentuated decline of the dollar," he said.

Early 1990 is looking a lot like early 1984, the one year of sustained decline in the bull market of the 1980's.

The only thing likely to slow production is a sustained decline in oil prices, something few energy specialists predict.

Versalles, whose salary was doubled to $40,000 the next season, went into an immediate and sustained decline.

But it quickly began a long, sustained decline.

But it could also provoke a sustained decline in oil prices, industry executives and analysts said today.

At some point, there is a sustained decline in some type of spending for some reason.