In relation to GDP, it declined from 2.3% in 2001 to 2.0% in 2002.
It declined from 43.9% in 2002 to 27.9% in 2013, after two decades of no progress whatsoever.
While that rate was higher than last year's levels, partly because of gasoline prices, it declined from a rate of 3.3percentt during the first quarter.
The rule prohibits short-sellers, who borrow stock and sell it in the hope of making a profit when it declines, from trading on shares when they are declining.
Between 2000 and 2007 global gold-jewellery demand slid from 3,205 tonnes to 2,417 tonnes; as a share of the total demand for gold, it declined from nearly 80% to just over 60%.
Between 1993 and 2003, overseas production more than doubled to 2m units, while in Japan it declined from 3.5m to 3m before recovering in the later years to its old level, boosted by exports; about half of domestic production is exported.This globalisation process has transformed the size and shape of Toyota.
Crude oil, which began the year at $26.80 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, climbed above $32 and stayed in the upper $20's until it declined from a post-attack high of $28.81 on Sept. 17, to $19.84 at the end of the year.
In the US it declined from $5 million to $4.5 million.
Similarly, for women, it declined from 25 in 1990 to 21 in 2010.
The works in this series are an extension of the ideas that led to Ruscha's Course of Empire, a series inspired by five paintings by Thomas Cole of the Hudson River School, which depict the same landscape over time as it declines from a pristine natural state into desolation.
