61.   Shares of many big multinational companies that do business in Asia fell Monday on fears that declining sales there would hurt profits.

62.   Smith oversees a division with declining sales.

63.   Silicon Graphics, based in Mountain View, California, has restructured its business to deal with declining sales of its high-end computers.

64.   Some critics are portraying it as a self-serving effort to protect the declining sales of the Miami-headquartered Bacardi rum company.

65.   Still, Kodak continued to trim costs amid the declining sales.

66.   Spar Aerospace Ltd. reported a third-quarter loss on declining sales from its communications and space divisions and charges related to unused offices.

67.   Strong overseas demand helped companies offset declining sales at home following a two percent increase in consumption tax increase in April.

68.   Tequila, made in Mexico from the distilled juice of agave plants, has been a rare exception to the rule of declining sales.

69.   That offset declining sales and a loss at AB Dick.

70.   That has negative implications for future spending, economists said, and reinforces the declining sales and profit forecasts in the tankan.