Total spending is set to decline for the second consecutive year, says the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO), the biggest drop in more than three decades (see chart).

美国国家预算官员称，整体开销将会连续第二年下降，这会是30年来最大幅度的下降。

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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.

但中央拥有的国有企数量将继续减少，从去年底的161家减少到2010年的80至100家。

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Countries in a state of decline often look for a foreign adventure to divert the ire of their disgruntled citizenry.

状态下滑的国家经常到外国冒险以疏导他们那些心怀不满的国民的愤怒。

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University officials give two plausible reasons for thinking that those who decline to state their race are most likely to be white or Asian.

ECONOMIST: Californian higher education

Many defenders of higher education attribute the rise in prices to an alleged decline in state appropriations to higher ed.

FORBES: Subsidy-Absorbing Institutions of Higher Education

And how was that shift related to the decline in state support and federal support of public higher education?

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