11.   The trade deficit did decline slightly from the previous two months, bolstered by higher prices of agricultural exports, Bandid said.

12.   The U.S.-Japan deficit also declined.

13.   Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin bragged today that the budget deficit will have declined four years running when the current fiscal year closes.

14.   While deficits declined, reducing what economists call public dissaving, the savings rate in the private sector was falling.

15.   With the crisis and the IMF reform package, the current account deficit will decline.

16.   But by the turn of the century the fiscal deficit will decline to a low of three percent.

17.   The deficit declined faster than expected.

18.   The June deficit declined, year on year, as exports rose faster than imports.