31.   Declining wholesale prices reflect slowing demand for pork.

32.   Declining prices reflect a tectonic shift in the ad market.

33.   Declining stock prices increase the problems of conservatives who want to partially privatize Social Security.

34.   Even with lower costs, though, the declining prices could cut into profits.

35.   Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd. attributed the drop in profit at its gold division to declining gold prices.

36.   Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd. said the drop in profit at its gold division was due to declining gold prices.

37.   Gold is traditionally a hedge against inflation, and declining gold prices suggest continued low inflation.

38.   Hill acknowledged the Pfizer deal will significantly help ArQule financially, which recently has suffered steep losses and rapidly declining stock prices.

39.   In any other circumstances, the combination of rising jobs and declining prices would have sent economists and average Americans into the street dancing.

40.   In the past, efforts to use natural materials have been stymied in part by declining prices for oil and natural gas.