1.   While wine consumption has dropped, demand for beer and spirits has shot up.

2.   Sales of Hennessy and Hine cognac have also suffered, particularly in Japan where consumption dropped during the year.

3.   And Hong Kong residents, whose chicken consumption has dropped precipitously despite government advisories that eating cooked chicken is safe, are listening.

4.   But some industry executives worried that Argentina could see a decline in its beef exports to Europe if concern over the deadly disease caused overall beef consumption to drop.

5.   Germany, Italy and Greece have seen consumption drop by the same level.

6.   Milk consumption has been dropping for the last three decades, and calcium nutrition among both young and old has collapsed with it.

7.   Total fat consumption has dropped slightly, but Americans continue to grow fatter.

8.   When newsprint consumption dropped, profits disappeared for most mills, which were still paying for their modernization.

9.   Yet grits consumption has been dropping along with our willingness to take time for breakfast.

10.   Prices and beef consumption dropped further as the European Union and other countries imposed a ban on imports of British beef, where BSE was most widespread.