1.   As publishers mourned declining sales of hardback fiction, they also celebrated rising sales overall.

2.   Almost three-fifths of the companies that declared bankruptcy cited declining sales, accumulated debt and difficulty in repaying credit, Tokyo Shoko said.

3.   Although hard data to support this belief will not be available for quite some time, anecdotes about declining sales at a variety of American companies are spreading.

4.   An embattled yen and serious trouble on the Hong Kong stock market have resulted in declining sales of expensive shoes, handbags and liquors by Japanese tourists.

5.   Analysts said declining sales of most alcoholic beverages made it all but inevitable that the industry would seek try to drop its voluntary ban.

6.   And key portions of the disk drive business remained too soft to halt a long-running trend of declining sales.

7.   Brands have to be on top of the trends, or face the specter of declining sales.

8.   All these choices have caused declining sales of sheer pantyhose in the last two or years.

9.   But Canandaigua has potential problems, too, like the declining sales in some pockets of the industry.

10.   But can NHIS withstand declining IRL ticket sales in the future?