Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indiscriminate sex orgies. They try to mate with sticks, stones, vegetation or anything else in the vicinity. However they react, they are seldom able to find the available females; they soon become so accustomed to the scent that they no longer respond to it. The result: a sharp drop in the population of caterpillar young -and crop damage. In field tests near Blythe, Calif., last year, only 10% of cotton crops treated with Gossyplure were damaged, compared with 80% in unsprayed areas...
That's Bonnie Raitt. On stage, the Harvard drop-out blues singer's voice is as strong as ever, but in a post-concert conversation the hoarseness of a full touring schedule is obvious. After singing in Durham, N.H., last month, she is introduced to the student manager of the concert. "Good concert," she says. "No deaths, no rapes, just a few busts, I hear." In reality, she's just left the people in the audience dancing on top of their chairs after her second encore a few minutes before...
...study, which was supposed to be completed in time for the release of the ACSR report in March, states that selling all South Africa-related holdings would immediately cost the University between $5.7 and $16.5 million because of brokers' commissions and a drop in the price of the holdings...
Students at the Medical School this week will publish the first issue of a new semi-annual art and literary review, "Byways," which aims to "keep the door open for the creative interests which students sometimes drop when they enter the high pressure of medical school," Stephen A. Hoffman, a first-year medical student and editor of the review, said last week...
Harvard jumper Mike Young staged a major surprise with his second place finish in the high jump event, ending up just behind Rainer Malybender of Princeton Young had jumped to a dead heat 6 ft, 8 in mark with his Tiger opponent, only to drop to second place after a prolonged jump...