Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These were difficult times. Yet another poll last week showed yet another drop in President Carter's popularity, with only 38% approving his performance in the White House. In official Washington, too, there was increasing skepticism about Carter's ability to govern effectively. How did the President himself feel he was faring amid these pervasive doubts about his leadership? In an exclusive interview with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian, the President considered a broad range of questions and provided some illuminating insights-and some answers...
...couple in their late 50s earning $15,000 a year rent an apartment and sell their 20-year-old home, realizing a capital gain of $34,000. Now, they would pay a tax of $7,709 on their total income. That would drop to $6,659 under Steiger's plan, a saving...
...Last day to drop a course, or to change from credit to non-credit or audit within the same course (with 50 per cent adjustment of tuition). 20 Garden...
World sugar prices have plummeted from 65? per Ib. in 1974 to 7? today. That is good news for consumers, particularly for the country's biggest user, Coca-Cola Co. Each 1? drop in sugar prices saves Coke $20 million a year. But the tumbling prices are bad news for domestic growers of sugar cane and sugar beets, who contend they need a price of 17? per Ib. to meet their production costs...
...qualifying round that "Brazil, my beloved Brazil, has only given us reason to cry." He cried too soon, and back in Brazil a despairing construction worker and soccer fan named Julio Gondim poured sleeping pills into a bottle of rum and committed suicide too soon: his team did not drop out of the running until the last day of the elimination...