Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gloves and steps out into the wet to watch while the team of state employees swing into action. The routine, already practiced a hundred times since sunup, is simple, though a trifle ghastly. Two burly men lift the dead whitetail deer out of the back of the truck and drop it on the bloody plywood platform of a large scale. Carlson's blond son Craig, 9, steps in, weighs the deer, calling out its weight in a clear, childish voice to three women sitting like the three Fates at a table behind the scale. As the hunter approaches...
...more of their revenue. Unfortunately for them, that prop will soon begin to wobble. With the great postwar baby boom petering out, the number of 18-year-olds in the U.S. population is about to decline sharply. The crop should peak at 4.3 million this year, then drop annually, falling a total of 25% by 1992. Notes Harvard President Derek Bok: "The institutions that closed in the past few years did so without the impact of the decline in enrollment. The decline will provide much more serious pressure on closings in the next generation...
...departments, and even entire colleges, begin to drop like apricots, many will be scooped up by public schools, especially the small community colleges. These too overexpanded recklessly during the 1960s, but, at least until now, they have been protected by ever-increasing public subsidies. Competition from new branches of the University of Maine, for example, led to the closing early last year of Ricker College in Houlton, Me. In Dallas, the well-regarded night-school classes of Southern Methodist University once accounted for 35% of S.M.U.'s enrollment; with seven new community colleges in the area, that part-time...
Also, a worker who stays on until 70 need not be paid a higher pension than he would have collected if he had retired at 65. Thus companies' pension costs will not rise; they may even drop, since a worker who retires at 70 will draw a pension for fewer years. The cost of providing life and supplementary medical insurance for older workers may rise, but that will be offset by guidelines that the Department of Labor will issue within three months. They will declare that an employer will not have to pay any more to provide benefits...
...Boston's Little Flags Theatre which presented the highly acclaimed "Furies of Mother Jones" last year, and the founder of the Manhattan Theatre Club. Producer Nancy Krieger intends her "Expression and Exchange" series to provide an atmosphere conducive for audience participation and comment. "We welcome people to just drop by--that's what community (as opposed to commercial) theatre is about," she says. Determined not to be limited to the Harvard-Radcliffe community, she has publicized her series in the Globe and the Phoenix, as well as in feminist bookstores and publications. "Expression and Exchange" occurs every night until...