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The Civilian Complaint Review Board received 4,487 complaints in 2017 — up 202 from the year before — an uptick in allegations following seven years of declining numbers, according to the police watchdog agency's 64 - page report.

In the month of June software sales fell 15 %, making it the fourth month this year of declining numbers.

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Overall, in both chambers, the number of top Democratic committee members from coastal states will decline in next year's Congress.

Elliott declined to comment on Express's revenue numbers, users, or its budget (the latter of which Recode reported as $ 500 million per year in 2014).

Crypt been a hit with viewers — a handful of episodes have been viewed more than 5 million times, while most generate numbers in the hundreds of thousands — and produced revenue in the seven figures last year, says Davis, who declined to get specific.

This year, the number was 78,900 for the same period, a decline of 1.7 %, according to the company.

The rise of the numbers for women - owned businesses over the past five years is cause for cheer among those who would like to see more equality of business ownership, particularly given the stagnant numbers or declines over the previous half decade.

After years in which the number of children being excluded from schools declined, the latest figures that slipped out Thursday reveal that the number is starting to rise again.

Home ownership has experienced the biggest decline in two decades, and the number of renting households has been growing by about 700,000 a year since 2006.

The number of U.S. manufacturing jobs has been on a 30 - year decline.

We referenced their numbers when we looked at the changing anatomy of U.S. oil imports, or when showing the decline in coal use over recent years.

Over the last 30 years or so, the number of people starting new businesses has been in serious decline.

«Although passenger car segments have declined over the last number of years, they are still very important,» GM's Stevens said Thursday.

After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.

The horse - race quality of reporting in the monthly sales numbers will support this, as the market almost has to post year - over-year declines — sales running above 17 million for years on end isn't sustainable.

Births decline China's national statistics bureau said the number of births in fell to 17.23 million in 2017, down from 17.86 million the previous year.

Earlier this month, it was revealed the number of applications for H - 1B visas — a similar, coveted program for companies to onboard specialized foreign labor — declined for the second year in a row, as the administration moves to streamline the program.

According to the FBI, the number of background checks of prospective firearms buyers, a proxy for gun sales, fell again in January compared to a year earlier, continuing a trend of declines for nearly every month in 2017.

Research from digital marketing agency Catalyst Canada found the number of apps Canadians have on their phones declined from an average of 26 in 2014 to less than 19 last year.

After all, it was less than a year ago that The New York Times reported that magazine sales — in particular, celebrity magazine sales — were in a state of sharp decline, and the numbers they cited for the first half of 2014 were grim.

Data by Dealogic showed a 12 percent year - on - year decline on the number of deals announced in the first nine months of 2017.

Even as the economy marched back toward prosperity over the past few years, both the number of us donating and the amount we give have declined; analysis by the Fraser Institute pegged the drop at a total of $ 11.1 billion between 2006 and 2011.

The number of companies going public has been steadily declining over the years, and many startups are opting to stay private longer, in part because private capital has become abundant.

That number is an improvement on the 12 - percent decline in subscription revenue AOL saw during the second quarter of last year, which was the lowest rate of decline in five years, the company said.

The Kauffman Foundation, citing its own research and drawing on U.S. Census data, concluded that the number of companies less than a year old had declined as a share of all businesses by nearly 44 percent between 1978 and 2012.

The report said that «Facebook (including Messenger but excluding Instagram) saw a decline in total person - hours (number of users multiplied by hours of consumption per person) during September of -0.1 % year - over-year following a -0.9 % decline in August.»

So the discount chain, hoping to avoid the 1.3 % decline in comparable sales of the 2016 holiday season quarter during the most important time of year, is streamlining the number of promotions and making them simpler and easier to understand, Target executives told reporters at a briefing last week in New York.

The numbers also suggest that Penney is not getting that much of a lift from the ongoing declines at Sears (shld), whose appliance business Penney has been eyeing for two years now.

While small in their physical footprints, the store closings will be another setback for shopping malls that have been grappling with declining traffic and a rash of store closures in the last year as a number of chains have gone bankrupt or pared back their stores amid the rise in online shopping.

In fact the numbers of «employables» receiving «temporary assistance» benefits is already increasing after years of decline.

Nor is he deterred by the fact that the number of births in the U.S. declined for a sixth consecutive year in 2013, to 3.93 million.

Numbers may decrease over the next few years though, particularly in Alberta as energy firms continue to lay off staff because of the 2014 oil price decline.

The first - quarter sales strength stemmed in part from a 4.9 percent increase in prices over the past year, while the number of transactions in the quarter declined.

We're Number One: The International Monetary Fund recently projected debt as a share of GDP will decline over the next five years for all advanced economies in the world except for one: Spoiler Alert: It's the U.S.A.

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The U.S. added 1.3 million owner households over the last year and lost 286,000 renter households, the fourth consecutive quarter in which the number of renter households declined from the same quarter a year earlier.

According to Realtor.com, the number of homes listed for sale in Seattle has declined by 30 % over the last year or so.

Indeed, the volume and number of cross-border deals continues to grow, even in a year in which global M&A transactions are declining.

The number of «underwater» homeowners in the fourth quarter of 2012 declined by 1.7 million from a year earlier, meaning 1.7 million U.S. households have regained home equity, according to data released Tuesday by CoreLogic, a research company.

In fact, in the S&P 500 Cumulative Advance - Decline Line seen below — a calculation of the number of stocks advancing less the number in decline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - timeDecline Line seen below — a calculation of the number of stocks advancing less the number in decline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - timedecline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - time highs.

Moreover, only 7 percent of bankers expected double - digit declines in the next 12 months, which was half the number of bankers that expected double - digit declines a year ago.

The auto sector has come back strongly, including auto parts in the United States, and the housing sector has come back modestly, but it's come back after a number of years of decline,» Flaherty said in Brampton, Ont.

• Excellent on certain dividend categories, including 43 straight years of increases, low payout ratio, and highest yield ever available • Declining number of shares over the past 10 years makes each remaining share worth a higher percentage of the company.

Adding to the problem is the fact that these mega banks have been allowed to gobble up their peer banks over the years, leading to a drastic decline in the number of Primary Dealers that can bid at U.S. Treasury auctions.

More broadly, as some of these projects finish this year, the Bank's overall staff numbers will decline.

10 - 20 % declines look to be the average, with a number of years realizing deeper pullbacks (1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, and 2008).

Congress was still debating a number of bills calling for the privatization of mail delivery as late as June 1982, two months before the final low of a 16 - year decline in real stock prices.

The number of personal bankruptcies has been declining the last four years, largely due to the improvement in the economy, according to Fitch Ratings (via Association of Credit and Collection Professionals).

Because unemployed individuals who have been without a job for a year or more are automatically ineligible for Employment Insurance, their higher proportion since the «90s, and particularly since 2011, has directly contributed to the decline in the number of the unemployed receiving benefits.

But the number of homes sold last month compared with a year prior declined in three of the four North Bay counties included in the report by CoreLogic, an Irvine - based real estate data firm.