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...largest drop-off occurs during junior year, but some students wait until later. The English Department's Assistant Head Tutor for Seniors A.W. Phinney says that approximately five seniors annually drop honors in September of their senior year, and two to five additional honors candidates drop their theses over the course of the year. The English Department currently has 87 honors seniors and 54 non-honors seniors, he adds...
Those who perceive a drop-off in maintenance tend to blame deregulation and the pressure it has placed on airline profits. Maintenance is expensive: when United performs a major overhaul on a 747, the job consumes almost 15,000 worker-hours and $2.5 million. During the first eight years after deregulation, from 1979 through 1986, the industry suffered gross operating losses of $7.1 billion, as opposed to $2.2 billion in profits in the previous eight years. Many airlines have bounced back, so that the industry as a whole should post operating profits of more than $2 billion in 1988, predicts...
...levels of the Faculty there'sunder-representation of women," says AssociateDean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam."But there is sort of a drop-off at the seniorlevel and we have to consider what can be done...
...There's some drop-off [in the number of science concentrators] because we don't always do as good a job as we could," Pilbeam said. "The aim is to attract more people and hold more people in the sciences...
Among the material the FBI recovered from John's drop-off point last month was a three-page "Dear friend" letter. "Storage is becoming a problem," it began, going on to discuss a situation "we once faced in Hong Kong." The storage problem presumably referred to the hiding of stolen material. The letter also described the activities of persons referred to only as D, S and K. It reported that S was providing "a large quantity of material" and "making a career decision in the Navy" where "good access is possible." Authorities have identified S as son Michael...