61.   These were partially offset by declines in output by the utilities, financial and related services and public administration.

62.   Those advances were partly offset by declines in communications,.

63.   These were partly offset by declines in full-time employment, especially among youths and adult men, and in goods-producing industries.

64.   Managing director Hideo Makagome told a news conference that an upturn of sales of its main Lager brand was offset by declines in sales of other brands.