31.   Levis Strauss is counting on advertising to help reverse a decline in sales.

32.   Mayor Richard Riordan said the commission is taking steps to reverse the decline.

33.   Nevertheless, success in Japan could help Gateway reverse a decline in earnings in the U.S.

34.   Other Jacksonville stocks reversed steep declines last week.

35.   Over the next year or so, the company says it will take steps to reverse the decline in sales with a series of new-product introductions.

36.   Quaker Oats executives say the Snapple decline was reversed only in the last three months.

37.   Reversing that decline might be helped if Brazil were to overcome its lingering inferiority complex.

38.   Satcher warned Monday that increases in smoking by minorities, especially minority teen-agers, threaten to reverse declines in the incidence of cancer.

39.   Sweeney has been willing to break with tradition to reverse that decline.

40.   That could reverse the declines in prepayments over the last few months.