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...then the Crimson hit a rough stretch, which was more a reflection of its competition than any serious drop-off in performance level. The team got soundly beaten by Hartford (85-67); trounced by Penn (92-76), who would later make it to the second round of the NCAA tournament; destroyed by long-time league power Princeton (70-47); and narrowly beaten by a good Fairfield team...
...Before Rollins piped up, Democrats had ascribed the lack of enthusiasm for Florio to the Governor's lackluster campaigning in black areas. "They took blacks for granted and paid a price in the turnout," said an aide to Newark Democratic Congressman Donald Payne. Now he suggests the drop-off may have had a more sinister explanation: that the G.O.P. had paid the price in cash...
...number of foreign students declined by 7 percent, faster than the overall summer school enrollment drop-off of 2 percent. This year 1236 students enrolled in the summer school from foreign countries, down from last year's figure...
Postmenopausal women often get osteoporosis, a weakening of the bones that can lead to easy fracture. A report in Science may explain why. A drop-off in the hormone estrogen leads to an overproduction of osteoclasts, cells whose job is to scour away aging bone cells. Trouble is, other cells called osteoblasts, which fill in the holes left by osteoclasts, don't increase proportionately. If humans respond the same way as lab mice, new drugs could supersede current estrogen-replacement therapy, which can cause fluid retention and leg cramps...
These figures represent a drop-off from1988-89, when two Harvard money managers earnedmore than $1 million each. Still, Mittelman's$682,000 paycheck for 1990-91 is more than threetimes the $199,986 that then-Harvard PresidentDerek C. Bok earned in 1989-90, the most recentyear for which figures are available...