1.   ICES and commission scientists say that the continued use of small mesh will greatly accelerate the decline of fish stocks.

2.   And in the presence of a frothy stock market, it accelerated the decline of an already falling market.

3.   As a result, sell orders that investors wanted to execute yesterday may swamp the market at the open of trading, accelerating the decline.

4.   Accelerating the decline was the slump in United Microelectronics Corp., the second-largest chip foundry in the world.

5.   British government bonds, already pulled lower by German bunds, accelerated their decline after the unemployment data were released.

6.   But some are expressing resolve not to sell and accelerate any decline.

7.   But the union has resisted retirement incentives, which accelerate the decline in its membership.

8.   Closing the Angolan and Macedonian operations will accelerate the decline in number and scope of global peacekeeping operations.

9.   Computer-generated selling accelerated a decline in stocks.

10.   Despondent investors intensified their selloff of blue chip stocks, accelerating the decline in the Dow Jones industrial average and narrowly avoiding bear market territory.