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Data from the cellular industry's trade association shows a downward trend in the average monthly bill of cell phone subscribers--down from about $80 per month in 1990 to about $40 per month...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ringing Off the Hook | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...exacted his cooperation in cracking down on terrorist training cells in Afghanistan. But Washington had come to believe that Sharif was digging his own grave and dragging his country into it. "Things were basically falling apart," says former CIA chief Robert Gates. "It had been a steady, slow, downward spiral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good News Coup? | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Falling to No.8 Duke 3-1, Princeton continued its downward spiral with a humiliating 8-2 rout courtesy of No.2 Maryland, and may have hit rock bottom being shutout by Syracuse 1-0, a team it beat 7-0 last year...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: F. Hockey Tries to Cage Tigers | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...assaults, robberies, rapes and murders per 100,000 people - is now 566, just a little above where it was in 1985, the last year before crack became a popular (and murderous) activity. Guns were still responsible for the majority of murders (64.9 percent) but that figure represents a continued downward trend, dropping from 67.8 percent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Have All the Criminals Gone? | 10/17/1999 | See Source »

...what's behind this downward trend...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge School Enrollment Declines | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

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