81.   As brokerage commissions plummeted over the past decade, Wall Street firms had to turn elsewhere to pay for their highly compensated analysts.

82.   As daily metropolitan readership has sunk over the past decade, readership among alternative weeklies has been strong.

83.   Areas sown with palm hearts, pineapples, citrus and other legal crops have doubled in the past decade.

84.   As Hochmuth pointed out, things have changed radically in the past decades.

85.   As in much of the past decade, the U.S. president attends the annual session with his country far behind on its U.N. dues.

86.   As New York City has become safer in the past decade, more and more students have applied to colleges in the city.

87.   As almost every other major museum on the planet has done in the past decade or two, the Prado is planning an expansion.

88.   As an enemy for terrorists, the United States itself has been changing the definition of superpower at an accelerating pace in the past decade.

89.   As universities nationwide have enjoyed substantial endowment growth over the past decade, the size of individual gifts has also repeatedly broken records.

90.   As the economy has thrived, the Hamptons have changed over the past decade.