21.   Attendance at Camden Yards has declined for four straight years as the team has struggled on the field.

22.   Attendance has shot up and behavioral problems have declined for students learning through technology at Blackstock and Green, district officials said.

23.   Australian retail spending in April declined for the first time in seven months and building approvals were little changed from March.

24.   BELGIAN stocks declined for a sixth day, erasing earlier gains as the surging U.S. dollar depressed European bonds amid concern over higher interest rates.

25.   Because personal virtue has been in decline for quite some millennia now.

26.   Biotechnology companies declined for a second day.

27.   BELGIAN stocks declined for the second straight day with U.S. stocks, led by a fall in the shares of UCB SA.

28.   Benchmark indexes in Malaysia and Indonesia fell to their lowest points in four years while Hong Kong stocks declined for a second day amid concern over rising interest rates.

29.   Bonds declined for a second day as signs of strong growth raised inflation concern -- though price pressures remain dormant for now.

30.   -- Average per-capita wine consumption has declined for years.