And they found an almost-as-big decline in such shares, on average, the day after those record dates.

The survey found an average annual decline of 1 percent to 2 percent a year.

Elias Sports Bureau, however, found a decline in the number of games decided by 10 or more runs.

But research by the association had not found a decline in interest, she said.

At the same time, an agency study of high school students nationwide found a decline in tobacco use since 1997.

Trawl surveys off Sydney found a similar decline of 45%.

The poll also found a striking decline in public support for social welfare programs.

The 1990 census found only a slight decline in population, counting 141,686 people.

The report found an over-all decline of 21 percent in commercial values for the three years from 1989 to 1992.

The 1994 survey found a decline of 1.1 percent in average costs, after a decade of steady increases.