For the first two months of 2002, ad pages are down 17.1 percent from the period a year earlier.

For the first five months of 1992, ad pages were down 9.2 percent.

For the first three months of 2002, ad pages were down 14.1 percent from a year earlier.

For the year, ad pages will break 1,400, also a record and an increase of 15 percent from 1987.

He said ad pages were up 51 percent for the first two issues this year.

It used to be who could get more ad pages.

Ad pages fell to 987 last year from 2,126 in 2000.

For the first five months, ad pages were down 0.2 percent compared with the period a year earlier.

For 2004, ad pages are down 2.7 percent compared with the same period in 2003.

In the year through July, ad pages were down 10.4 percent.