Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Resorts International opened its football-field-size casino in May, gamblers lost an average of $438,500 a day on the tables and machines. By June the daily drop reached $535,000, and security analysts estimate that the figure is now running as much as $700,000 a day, three times the revenues of either Caesars Palace or the MGM Grand, the biggest casinos in Las Vegas...
...some Californians still do not waste a drop...
Though the postmen had initially demanded wage increases that would have totaled 14% in the first year alone, the real sticking point in the talks was that the Postal Service wanted to drop the no-layoff clause that was in the old contract. The unions feared that increasing automation in the sorting of mail could put more and more of their members out of work. Finally, at 10 p.m. last Thursday, two hours before the formal expiration of the contract, the Postal Service negotiators agreed to retain the no-layoff clause, and progress on the other issues came almost immediately...
...projected level of 11.5 million bbl. a day to 9 million bbl. by 1985. Congressional opposition to tax increases on oil will make that difficult. On the other hand, oil imports in this year's first half declined to 7.8 million bbl. a day-almost a 13% drop from the same period in 1977 -because conservation is working, and oil is arriving from Alaska. Carter also promised to counter the nation's double-digit inflation...
...sequence make it so fraught with peril for eggs and sperm that perhaps a third of all potential pregnancies end at the time of implantation. As Dr. Albert Decker of the New York Fertility Research Foundation puts it, "Pregnancy is not simple. Women do not get pregnant at the drop...