21.   Priorities change with age and they are often able to decrease the number of things that concerned them in their younger years.

22.   Previous studies showed that higher prices did decrease the number of children smoking and the amount they smoked.

23.   Proposals include decreasing the number of members on the board and reducing their professional ties to the housing industry.

24.   Repurchases are typically done by companies to decrease the number of outstanding shares, boosting future per-share earnings and the stock price.

25.   Rumsfeld said the task of the American-led coalition forces would certainly be more difficult if Pakistan decreased the number of its troops assigned to the border region.

26.   She also said elk are causing many traffic accidents and decreasing the number of alpine fir trees, which she said are a preferred food of elk.

27.   Scores of manufacturers have won concessions that give them greater authority to increase and decrease the number of hours worked as business waxes and wanes.

28.   Sign-carrying has not decreased the number of parole violators, said Janis Bane of the Harris County Community Supervision and Corrections Department.

29.   Simply decrease the number of things you buy while increasing the quality of the items you do purchase.

30.   Such caring and respect, she concluded, would actually serve to decrease the number of abortions in the country in the long run.