But the practice, which peaked among American mothers in 1982 after a decades-long decline, is far from commonplace.

After a decades-long decline in the proportion of Americans who regularly eat breakfast, newly released data indicate that the trend might have reversed.

But this decade has amplified the industry's troubles, with ad dollars contracting, newsprint and other costs rising, and the decades-long decline in circulation accelerating.

"We've seen a decades-long decline in government support of public education," James Garland, Miami's president, said yesterday in an interview.

Something strange has happened: The decades-long decline in the age of retirement has come to an abrupt halt.

Agriculture in Jordan contributed substantially to the economy at the time of Jordan's independence, but it subsequently suffered a decades-long steady decline.

The agency estimates that it has made more than $40 billion worth of capital improvements since 1982, when the system began to reverse a decades-long decline.

The city went into a decades-long decline, hastened by Hurricane Agnes in 1972.

As the labor movement struggles to reverse its decades-long decline, unions have been searching for new types of workers to organize.

The increase also comes as other European countries, worried about economic growth, look to reverse a decades-long decline in fertility rates.