The president pointed to stabilizing consumer spending and home sales, declining unemployment claims and an eroding number of job losses.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

Wagoner has been criticized for his handling of G.M.'s declining fortunes, but he has said he intends to stay on.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

The month of February brought good news for the automobile sector as car sales jumped 22 percent, reversing four months of declining sales.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

Like many hospital CEO's across the country, Baker says revenues are declining while operating costs are rising.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The cut in staff comes as the volume of mail in the United States is declining.

VOA: standard.2010.04.13

WHO says declining air quality worsens illnesses and deaths from asthma,heart disease, and lung cancer.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Venetians have been concerned about the declining population of the canal city for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

This is a lot of money,". In announcing their decision, Federal Reserve policy makers noted significant challenges facing the economy, including rising unemployment and declining consumer spending.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

President Medvedev says Russia will devote considerable resources to develop and purchase new weapons, despite a tight national budget affected by the declining price of Russian oil exports.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

He was in the hospital, running a high fever and declining quickly.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Health Affairs editor Susan Dentzer says the rapid advance of information technology, along with declining prices, presents what she calls a spectacular opportunity in poor and middle-income nations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Grayson says Mexico's gross domestic product is likely to drop 5.5 percent this year due to the flu scare, the worldwide recession and declining production from Mexico's oil fields.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

And Mongrenier noted that European defense budgets overall are declining.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

At a time when newspaper circulation is declining rapidly around the world, Financial Times Web site (FT) says its subscriptions are up 22 percent, while revenues have jumped 30 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Support for the eight-year-old war is declining among Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Public opinion polls show rapidly declining support for both.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Far from declining further, he predicts production will double.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

Like declining HDL or "good" cholesterol.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

If they can organize as well in Yemen or Somalia or someplace else, then why fight in Afghanistan where no one has been successful for millennia?" U.S.public-opinion surveys show declining support for the war in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

"There is a realization at the end of the day that despite all the profits that Russia got from its sale of oil and gas over the last 10 years, that unless it modernizes its economy and reforms it, it will be a declining power."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

(Speaking) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned Kremlin critic and former head of the Yukos Oil Company, in a recent op-ed column, said Russia's demand for skills in fundamental and applied sciences is declining in light of the appetite for raw materials and corruption.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03