61.   This was the first decline in six sessions.

62.   Those were the first declines since last October.

63.   U.S. retail gasoline prices fell during the past month, the first decline in five months, the American Automobile Association said yesterday.

64.   U.S. retail gasoline prices fell during the past month, the first decline in five months, the American Automobile Association said.

65.   Venezuelan stocks fell, their first decline in seven sessions, as the failure of a Japanese brokerage rattled stock markets worldwide.

66.   U.S. worker productivity unexpectedly fell in the third quarter, the first decline in a year, suggesting inflation could accelerate in coming months.

67.   Uncertainty about the outlook for corporate earnings pushed investors toward the exits Thursday as major stock market indexes posted their first declines of the week.

68.   A sharp rise in unemployment in April and the first decline in new jobs in more than two years are sparking fears of recession.

69.   Barbados has fallen into a recession with the economy recording its first economic decline in nearly a decade, according to figures released Wednesday.

70.   Eastern Germany saw its first decline in nearly three years in the monthly figures, compared to the year before.