In 1989 it declined to about 14 percent, from just over 15 percent a year earlier.

The annual growth rate has declined from 5 percent last year to between 3 and 4 percent so far in 1988.

Yet the proportion of blacks going on to college declined from 48 to 38 percent.

That share had also declined, from 5.7 percent in 1996.

Its market share, though, declined from 57.5 percent in the 1985 period to 50.2 percent.

Under his leadership, poverty has declined from 58 to 42 percent in five years.

During that time the proportion of black inmates declined from 90 to 70 percent.

By last year it had declined from 40 percent to 10.

The percentage of white students in Richmond city schools declined from 45 to 21 percent between 1960 and 1975.

The number of people living in absolute poverty has declined, from 56 to 35 percent since 1992.