As for the headquarters' staffs, they spend decreasing amounts of time on the road.
And now that the economic crisis is weighing down on the entire industry, with advertisers cutting their overall budgets and the online spend decreasing rapidly, the wheat is getting separated from the chaff faster than expected.
According to the report, spending decreased on such nondurable items as utilities and groceries.
In a survey for the annual report, corporate and professional meetings planners projected an average 3percentt increase in spending this year over last year, when spending decreased 1percentt over 2002.
The report found that spending decreased in all 12 metropolitan districts included in the report, and businesses that responded to the Fed complained they "had become more pessimistic about the economic outlook".
I loved breastfeeding each of you, although the time spent decreased with each birth because your dad couldn't stand that he was excluded from such an intimate parental activity.
He cited that 30,000 people a year die of car accidents, billions of hours are spent "decreasing quality of life" during the stressful act of driving, and traffic hurts people's efficiency.
Under intense pressure from the EU and international market participants, the government adopted a medium-term austerity program that includes cutting government spending, decreasing tax evasion, overhauling the health-care and pension systems, and reforming the labor and product markets.
Spending decreases due to comorbidity adjustment were most extreme for pancreatitis (21.3% decrease).
