11.   A bear market refers to a long period of declining prices.

12.   Accepting it in your heart is another, especially in the face of falling indexes and declining stock prices.

13.   After an entire generation has come of age conditioned to fear inflation, the world suddenly finds itself increasingly anxious over the possibility of declining prices.

14.   After a year of declining prices, stiff competition and slim profits, European steelmakers are expecting better times -- as their share prices already are predicting.

15.   Alcoa also has been hurt by declining prices for aluminum beverage can sheet.

16.   But BHP has to work harder as well because of declining prices.

17.   But for now the declining prices favor Dell, because its competitors typically have inventories of machines that were built with higher-priced components.

18.   But Mr. Dell said that most of these cuts were driven by the declining prices of microprocessors and other parts.

19.   But with a stubbornly low price of oil, and declining prices for coal, their future popularity is hard to predict.

20.   Canadian stocks fell for a second day as declining gold prices weighed on shares of bullion producers.