1.   Urban dwellers exist in an environment which is choked with traffic and smog, while the very heart of their city declines into slums.

2.   As July declines into August, new releases drop off before picking up again in late August as we head into the fall publishing season.

3.   Austin real estate expert Charles Heimsath predicts prices will continue to decline into the first quarter of next year but thinks the market will start improving after that.

4.   But it declines into crude and stupid implausibilities.

5.   Companionship can vanish or, worse yet, decline into subtle, corrosive competition.

6.   Copper prices fell today amid expectations that manufacturing demand will decline into the first quarter as production increases.

7.   Copper prices fell today amid expectations that manufacturing demand will decline into the first quarter, as production increases.

8.   Instead, she grieved ceaselessly for Chaplin, and -- like her parents, brother and uncle before her -- declined into alcoholism.

9.   Politics has declined into a game for overgrown boys and their high-tech toys.

10.   Paper lanterns were a traditional Japanese industry, but the craft had declined into souvenir shop banality.