For the first eight months of 2003, ad pages rose 1.1 percent compared with the same period in 2002.

For the first six months of 1997, ad pages rose 5 percent from the corresponding period a year earlier, to 109,575.

For the first 11 months of 1997, ad pages rose 5.6 percent from the corresponding period a year earlier, to 209,726.

For June, ad pages rose in 6 of 12 major categories.

For the first two months of 1997, ad pages rose 3.5 percent from the corresponding period a year earlier to 29,892.

For the first two months of 2003, ad pages rose 3.1 percent compared with the period a year earlier.

For the first 10 months of 1997, ad pages rose 5.4 percent from the corresponding period a year earlier to 184,998.

Food & Wine's ad pages rose 2.1 percent for the same period.

For the first 11 months of 1995, total ad pages rose 5.8 percent, to 190,010, from the corresponding period a year earlier.

For the first nine months of 2003, ad pages rose 0.3 percent compared with the period in 2002.