Word: drop-off
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...Open at the Bethpage Black golf course in Farmingdale, N.Y. Back in 2002, the last time the Open was held at Bethpage, there were 78. The financial-services companies, knowing the government will pounce on an unnecessary golf junket, are staying away from the fairways. "That's a significant drop-off," says Peter Bevacqua, chief business officer for the USGA. "We have certainly been affected by the economic downturn...
...make insulin, but the body fails to respond properly to the hormone's signals.) While it is not yet clear what causes Type 1 diabetes, some experts believe that a patient's own immune system starts to attack insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, ultimately leading to a drop-off in hormone production. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...immigration laws, released a report with the somewhat triumphal title "Homeward Bound." Its authors argued that census data showed that approximately 1.3 million illegal immigrants had left the U.S. from August 2007 to May 2008. At that rate, their number would be halved in five years. Because the drop-off predated the worst of the recession, the report argued, the decline showed that the get-tough policies passed at the end of the Bush Administration were working. Members of Congress like Republican Representative Tom Feeney of Florida were on hand for a press conference with the report's authors...
...injected histamine into the monkeys' lower legs to produce an itch, and the STT neurons fired up. The researchers then scratched the paralyzed, itchy legs with a metal device that mimics the sensation of monkey fingers and found that the firing rate in the neurons dropped rapidly. That sudden drop-off in firing is the neurological equivalent of the relief felt after a good scratch, indicating that scratching seemed to calm the nerves and therefore relieve the itch. The findings supported the researchers' initial hunch that the itch sensation was not located along the skin of the monkeys' legs where...
...Program, wrote in a December 2005 Crimson editorial that the endowment was nearly $100 million. IOP Director Bill P. Purcell said that he expected the endowment’s decline to match that of Harvard’s overall endowment. In December, President Drew G. Faust warned that this drop-off could reach 30 percent by the end of the fiscal year. Purcell said he was confident in the ability of the IOP to continue providing services to its students. “We feel very comfortable that we’ll be able to fund our internship and stipend...