Industrialization failed but the main result was a sharp unexpected decline in agricultural output, which led to mass famine and millions of deaths.

New orders for durable manufactured goods fell 2.4 percent in May, an unexpected and significant decline.

It has proved profitable with the unexpected decline in longer-term yields.

An unexpected decline in domestic air travel helped reduce second-quarter profits to $129.2 million, 27.4 percent less than the comparable period in 1989.

He also argued that a very strong increase or an unexpected decline might have less impact than might be expected.

But the two prisons are to be vacated because of an unexpected decline in the city's prison population.

The city hopes to take advantage of an unexpected decline in fees at out-of-state landfills and incinerators, officials say.

The unexpected decline of one-tenth of 1 percent raised fresh doubts about economic recovery.

Dresdner Bank reported an unexpected decline in earnings as revenue stagnated and a tax gain was not repeated.

This shortfall wasn't caused by an unexpected post-election decline in tax revenues.