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Over all — including a decline of 12,000 public sector jobs in the Labor Department report for December — government employment is down 2.6 percent over the last three years, compared to a decline of 2.2 percent in the early Reagan years.

This was up by 11percentt compared to a decline of six percent last quarter.

Shares are now up 10% for the year, compared to a decline of 26% for the S&P 500.

Digital continues to be the driver of that: digital album sales are up by 14% and digital tracks up by 5%, compared to a decline of 13% in CD sales.

In 2006, the city had a net loss of 153,828 residents through domestic out-migration, compared to a decline of 141,047 in 1993, with every borough except Brooklyn experiencing a higher number of out-migrants in 2006.

Goldman Sachs said: "With Dell's shares down 6% in the past two weeks, compared to a decline of 4% for the Nasdaq [composite] and 1% for the S&P 500, expectations seem relatively low heading into Dell's earnings report".

This compares to a decline of 9.5% in the first half of the year.

Newspaper sales also worsened with circulation revenues down 7.2% in the period, compared to a decline in the second quarter of 6.5%.

Since 1991, the national rate has fallen by 86percentt -- compared to a decline in overall violent crime of 65percentt," Chapman wrote.

Another interesting finding was that once the effect of Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology and cerebrovascular disease on cognitive decline was removed, the annual rate of decline owing to typical aging processes or other unaccounted pathologies was only −0.02 per year compared to a total decline of −0.15 per year seen in subjects with both the pathologies.

The rate of male lung cancer deaths also rose by 4% in the same period, compared to a national decline of 2%.