71.   The decline reflected concerns about a reshuffling in the Cabinet and the economic outlook in Japan where growth slowed in the summer quarter.

72.   The decline also reflects a recent slowdown in economic growth, economists say.

73.   The decline reflected a drop in principal investing revenues, the winding down of divested businesses and a difficult financial market environment, the bank said.

74.   The decline reflected the absence of revenue this year from the divested Weight Watchers classroom business as well as the impact of the strong dollar.

75.   The group said the decline reflected its destocking program announced in October, and a slowdown in the U.S. business in the run-up to Christmas.

76.   The report said the decline reflected a drop in farm subsidies and auto industry bonuses.

77.   The statistics committee said the continuing population decline reflected, in part, fewer marriages and a rising number of divorces.

78.   This decline reflected how the government computes insurance in the GDP and was skewed by the huge losses incurred when terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center.

79.   This decline primarily reflected a return to more normal levels of service trade after a big one-time payment in September made by NBC to cover the Olympics.

80.   French consumer prices fell in July for the second month in a row but economists said Monday the decline reflected seasonal factors and was not a sign of deflation.