Word: depressible
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Fisher said that increased offers of merit-based scholarships for minority students by non-Ivy colleges, a Westward geographical shift in Harvard's applicant pool, and the decreased number of successful early action candidates all combined to depress this year's admissions yield...
...problem for the cattle ranchers is that the slaughtering of about 1.6 million dairy cows will provide a large new source of meat to the market and thus further depress beef prices. After the USDA announced March 28 that more than enough dairy farmers had volunteered for the slaughter program, the price of April beef futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange dipped from 58.2 cents per lb. to 52.6 cents...
...farm skepticism. "Publicity," scoffed Illinois Corn Farmer Richard Layden. "That's all it is. And more for the performers than the farmers." Still, Farm Aid may be the one bright spot in what is shaping up to be a brutal year in the fields. Bumper crops will probably depress prices to record lows. As Willie says in a song composed for Farm Aid, "When you are farming for a living/ You make your money from the ground/ You take it to the bankers/ And there ain't enough to go around...
...Last Time I Saw Paris. He mercilessly cut any song that did not fit its situation. Conversely, he was a great hoarder and tinkerer. Alter just a few bars of Till the Clouds Roll By and presto! it becomes Look for the Silver Lining. Invert the melody, depress the tempo and voila! the Cotton Blossom theme from Show Boat is alchemized into Ol' Man River...
...best, divestiture exemplifies the moral isolationism which American liberals have been practicing since Vietnam condemning others to misery for the sake of keeping there own hands clean. At worst, divestiture represents veiled support for violent resolution in South Africa, some of its proponents clearly hope that divestiture will depress the South African economy sufficiently to create a climate for revolution...