For example, its total revenue for the fiscal year that ended last June will shrink about 7 percent, to $350.5 million from $375.8 million.

He said revenues had been shrinking by about 15 to 20 percent quarterly.

This would clearly be an unaffordable burden for an entity whose core business and revenue is steadily shrinking.

Cutting costs is important at Lucent for a lot of reasons - not least that its revenue is shrinking.

But the company's revenues shrank nearly 7 percent over the same time while the rest of the information technology industry was booming.

Newspaper circulations and revenues are shrinking (some would say inexorably).

The problem is that it now appears that revenue for the long-distance market over all may be shrinking.

If revenues shrink, some owners may be hard-pressed to find the cash.

But even as the need grows, the federal government and the states are less able to provide aid because their revenues have shrunk in the recession.

Moreover, because of currency fluctuations, its revenue has shrunk.