11.   Meanwhile, corporate profits have been falling, factory production declining and consumer confidence dropping sharply.

12.   Mineral and agricultural production are declining, and violence and crime contribute to the risk, economists at McGraw-Hill said.

13.   Passenger car production in particular declined because of weak demand at home and abroad.

14.   Production is declining.

15.   Real wages, stagnant for several years, have dropped, and manufacturing production has declined, too.

16.   Production will decline if orders fall off.

17.   South African production has been declining for the past decade because of ore depletion and the emergence of new mines in countries where production costs are lower.

18.   The dollar rose, helping bonds, after Japan forecast industrial production will decline in coming months, damping expectations interest rates there will rise anytime soon.

19.   The ministry forecast industrial production will decline this month and then pick up in April.

20.   Those are numbers almost any NHL player would be proud of, but not Lemieux, whose production has declined dramatically.