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The Bradley campaign declined to provide a comment for this story.
9 percent in 1982, the rate generally declined over the 1980s, dropping as low as to 7.3 percent in 1987; for the decade, the rate averaged 9.1 percent.
(You'll recall Reno declined to go the special prosecutor route over Clinton-Gore coffees and phone calls.)
New antiretroviral therapies introduced in the mid 1990s have allowed many persons with HIV infection to live longer before progressing to AIDS, and to have longer survival following an AIDS diagnosis [ 1 2 3 ] . The annual number of deaths due to AIDS in the United States peaked in 1995 and has since declined [ 4 ] , resulting in an increase in the number of prevalent AIDS cases.
Although sulfur deposition has declined, nitrogen emissions have not changed substantially region-wide.