In fact, the authorised use of wiretapping for criminal investigations during the first half of this year decreased by 39% over the corresponding period of last year.
Logitech's retail sales for Q4 FY 2012 decreased year over year by 2 percent, with an increase in EMEA of 13 percent, an increase in Asia of 12 percent, and a decrease in the Americas of 17 percent.
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Fuel Economy is the only measure that has decreased from last year by 17 index points likely due to increasing gas prices, which are about 30% higher compared to the same time period last year.
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"Significantly, fewer smaller companies are going out of business year-on-year, while the total number of corporate insolvencies has decreased by a third in the last six months, " he said.
The good news for commuters is that traffic congestion in the U.S. decreased by an average of 30 percent last year, according to the annual National Traffic Scorecard conducted by traffic and navigation service provider INRIX in Kirkland, Wash.
The Lions are the only team to have decreased in value over the past year, by 6% .
According to a study by policy group the Urban Institute, felonies increased 18.3% in New York subways in 2005--but minus iPod thefts, the amount of subway crime would have actually decreased by 3% for the year.
Jonathan Kletzel, head of the transportation practice at accounting and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, said mergers don't necessarily lead to an increase in fares, and that from 2004 through 2011 a period that includes some of the biggest airline mergers domestic airfares actually decreased by nearly 1% a year when adjusted for inflation.
Excluding the unfavorable impact of exchange rates, sales decreased by 2 percent compared to the prior year.
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Sequentially and year-on-year, quarterly service revenues decreased primarily due to contract customer losses, which were partially offset by the increased adoption of data plans in the contract and prepaid customer base.
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In the early 1980s the toll stood as high as 1, 500 a year but by 1999 it had decreased to around 420 deaths, a fall of 460 on 1998.
Overall, smoking in eighth graders decreased by an average of 1.3 percentage points each year.
The number of casualties blamed on U.S. and allied forces decreased by 46 percent, with 316 killed and 271 wounded last year.
The overall volume of prescriptions increased at barely more than 1% last year, and the number of visits to health care providers by patients decreased 4%.
Attendance decreased globally by 1.5% in 2004 but perked up by 1.6% last year.
Domestic burglaries also decreased by 10.7%, with 3, 835 between 1 April and 30 September this year compared with 4, 295 in the same period last year.
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In the average in 2013, the PPI decreased 1.7 percent, year-on-year, the purchasing price index for manufactured goods went down by 1.8 percent year-on-year.
Although crime has decreased nationally since 1991, that drop came after a seven-year rise in crime even though the prison population expanded by 77% during the same period, points out Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University.
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