But last year, the number dropped 25 percent, to 173 from 296 in 1993, officials said.

In one year alone, from 1996 to 1997, the rate dropped 4 percent.

The price has dropped 23 percent in just over two weeks.

Business has dropped 30 to 40 percent over the last few years.

Today the price has dropped 42 percent, to an average of $2,200.

The number had dropped 13 percent between 1997 and 1998, to 6.2 million.

The American population has dropped 99 percent in the last century.

The company's share price has dropped 36 percent this year.

But since 1990, production has dropped more than 2 percent.

The number of employees dropped almost 10 percent, to 162,000.