University officials give two plausible reasons for thinking that those who decline to state their race are most likely to be white or Asian.
Many defenders of higher education attribute the rise in prices to an alleged decline in state appropriations to higher ed.
And how was that shift related to the decline in state support and federal support of public higher education?
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The extra fee revenue is not enough to compensate for the decline in state funding, and so both UC and CSU have aimed to reduce enrolment numbers.
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China is ramping up state spending to counter a sharp decline in growth, further entrenching state-owned companies and dimming some hopes that it would implement market-oriented changes.
"The lost performances and the understandable slower return to Broadway by our tri-state area theatergoers contributed to the decline in both grosses and attendance, " said Charlotte St.
To head off such relative decline, Germany needs to re-engineer not only the welfare state but its attitudes towards immigrants, women and people over 60.
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But the number of centrally owned state enterprises would continue to decline from 161 at the end of last year to between 80 and 100 in 2010.
In the last recession, however, the decline in real state revenue was vastly disproportionate to that of the economy as a whole, mainly due to a big drop in capital-gains-tax receipts.
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But unless we are willing to challenge the way in which the State is delivering those services we will be condemning them to perpetual decline.
Oil exports, which now produce 70% of state revenue, are set to decline as reserves dwindle, with some experts predicting they may run out as soon as 2012.
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To be sure, last year's decline in state funding nationwide was driven heavily by cutbacks in California, which has the largest state system and lashed funding per student by 14.3% last year.
The undoubted (if still unquantifiable) decline in the number of blacks and Latinos being admitted to the state's best public universities certainly gives yet more reason to worry about the state of California's schools.
The Democrats who have had firm control of the state during its years of decline would do well to remember that a society's most valuable asset is always its people, regardless of their wealth or clout.
The question from a reporter was prompted by concerns about a decline in the state's funding level below what's needed to pay benefits.
He called his political experiment the Burmese Way to Socialism, and it accelerated his country's decline into a police state and economic paraplegia.
Except, coinciding with this decline, Bush dropped the dead-or-alive approach to terrorists and their state sponsors during his second term, and soft-pedaled the democratization push.
Senior officials travelling with Mr Kerry said that the exchange with those leaders would not be burdened by perceptions of American decline, unlike during Hillary Clinton's maiden voyage to Asia as secretary of state in February 2009, in the midst of financial crisis.
Mr. Frampton sees faster-growing, prettier Christmas trees as critical to the state's agricultural economy, which is reeling from the decline of tobacco and from rapid suburban growth.
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As state and federal subsidies for installing rooftop solar systems are expected to decline in the coming years, these startups see solar securitization as way to secure a cheaper and more stable source of financing.
For 2008, the state could see its first year-over-year decline since 2001, according to a spokeswoman for Visit Florida, a not-for-profit corporation that carries out the work of the Florida Commission on Tourism.
Specialists who met in February in Pune, in Maharashtra state, reported a 4.5% decline in monsoon rain in the three decades to 2009.
One of the hallmarks of a nation in decline is a calcified political system constitutionally unable to make the deep and difficult decisions to right the ship of state.
Much of that decline came from Afscme Council 24, which represents Wisconsin state workers, whose membership plunged by two-thirds to 7, 100 from 22, 300 last year.
Mr. Megna disputed this, saying that the level of state debt to be issued over the next five years is expected to remain essentially flat, and that the budget doesn't increase the state's debt load, with total debt as a percentage of personal income expected to decline to 4.6% from 5.5% over the next five years.
Signaling less confidence among foreign firms, Algeria has recently faced a steady decline in interest among international partners, thanks in part to unfavorable revenue-sharing agreements and accusations of rampant corruption in state energy offices.
Tightened state budgets and a decline in donations have further stretched resources for the public interest firms, forcing them to make staff cuts at a time when demand for their services is greater than ever before.
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