Word: dropped
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Despite the drop, the U.S. remains first in the international productivity league, but its lead is narrowing. Over the past ten years, nonfarm private productivity increased only 27%-the same as in Britain, but less than half as much as in France, West Germany and Italy and less than a quarter as much as in Japan. In 1950 it took seven Japanese or three German workers to match the industrial output of one American; today two Japanese and about 1.3 Germans do as well. Says Economist Arthur Laffer: "The U.S. is the fastest 'undeveloping' country in the world...
Bovine sex has suffered for the sake of farmers' profits ever since artificial insemination replaced the old roll in the hay. The test-tube method allows the selection of genetically superior bulls, but there has always been a little problem with the cows. Even the best breeders normally drop only one calf a year. Now Mother Nature has been beaten at her own game by a new method that enables ranchers and farmers to turn the best of their cows into instant supermoms, capable of producing whole herds of exceptionally meaty or big-milking offspring...
...these cases, and you can't be God. The touchstone is 'the best interests of the child.' Isn't that a lovely phrase? What does it mean?" Criminal sentencing sometimes sends him walking around town, "chewing on it like a dog with a bone. You drop it and pick it up again and chew...
...MALE MENOPAUSE A MYTH? Though it has long been known that male sexual ability declines with age, doctors have never been sure of the reason. The most widely accepted explanation among scientists is that levels of the sex hormone testosterone drop after reaching a peak between ages 20 and 30, producing in effect a "male menopause." Now that theory has been challenged. In a study of 73 men, from 25 to 89 years old, Dr. S. Mitchell Harman and fellow researchers at the National Institute on Aging confirmed that there was decreasing sexual activity with advancing years but that levels...
Fitzsimmons predicted a drop of applications from 14 to 24 per cent within the next few years at colleges nationwide. "Harvard should be affected by the national trend, but we can't tell how much," he added...