In 2009/10 this spending dropped to £4.2 million and last year was £5.3 million.

At one point, in 1988, public spending for land acquisition dropped to $17 million.

Personal spending, which grew almost 4 percent in the fourth quarter of 1999 over the same period a year earlier, has been steadily dropping since.

His proposal is also $656,496 less than current spending, meaning the state's 40.4 percent share of local educational expenses would drop sharply.

Federal spending has dropped four years in a row and is still heading down.

The company has been cutting back in the last two years as military spending has dropped.

The projections show that discretionary spending, adjusted for inflation, would drop by 16 percent, or $65 billion a year, through 2010.

But annual spending has dropped from $44 million in 1987 to $16 million last year.

Overall military spending dropped to $11 billion in 1984 from $15 billion in 1979.

At the same time, American military spending dropped.