21.   Former President Jimmy Carter, also responding to the earlier plan, praised Bush for promising to reverse the decline in aid since the end of the Cold War.

22.   Four years ago, many union officials acknowledged that if unions did not reverse their membership decline, they would soon have little power left.

23.   GM, though, sees a chance to reverse its decline in market share by aggressively selling its fresh stable of flashy SUVs and trucks.

24.   He argued that increased recruitment efforts by the church, and an improving social climate, could help reverse the decline.

25.   In an effort to reverse the decline, the United States has urged high-level consultations with Beijing on bilateral relations, but has so far received no reply.

26.   Instead, he said the firm planned to expand its European operations next year and hoped to reverse the decline in the number of stockbrokers it employs.

27.   Is there anything that an individual or a well-intentioned government can do to reverse the decline of humankind?

28.   It also means reversing the decline in military spending for the first time in more than a decade.

29.   It took two decades for Congress to reverse a decline into deep, deep debt and to muster an annual surplus.

30.   Katz, of the video firm, had praise for the redevelopment agency, but questioned whether the city could reverse the decline of Hollywood.