41.   Hill said he saw a steady decline in fundamentals among the players he was recruiting during his college coaching career at Lehigh and Penn State.

42.   If a new generation of plants is not started soon, experts say, the de facto result will be a steady decline in the nuclear power industry.

43.   In the last decade, there has also been a steady decline in the teen-age birth rate, with the steepest decline among black teen-agers.

44.   It is harder for communities like Texarkana to lure classical drama mounted by professional troupes because of the steady decline of traveling companies.

45.   Labor Department statistics show a steady decline in retiree health coverage by American companies, Reich said.

46.   Many analysts encourage investors not to pull out of a fund unless they have seen three years of steady decline.

47.   Margaret Platt, a labor market analyst for the Employment Development Department, said it is not certain that Los Angeles County jobless rates are in a steady decline.

48.   Misery being the mother of humor, other travel experts also find occasional amusement in the steady decline in the quality of the airline experience.

49.   Moreover, they say, their research shows a steady decline in places where there was no crack epidemic and where innovative police strategies were not put into place.

50.   Membership is in steady decline.