Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Today's drop marked the third straight day of broad market decline, pushing the Dow Jones average below 800--its lowest close of the year. Since Monday, the average has fallen 22.27 points...
Little else was low. Despite decreases in sales of petroleum products and natural gas and a drop in refinery production, Exxon's revenues increased 30%, to $20.6 billion, compared with $15.9 billion in last year's third quarter. Net income soared 118% to $1.1 billion. Earnings per share jumped from $1.18 to $2.60, but Garvin failed even to mention that bullish news in his statement...
...Force should drop rice, grain, wheat, and other food held in storage by the U.S. government, he added...
...hard up for cash is the corps that it is reluctantly planning to shrink itself. Through attrition, it will drop to 179,000 by mid-1980, a reduction of 10,000. Says a senior Marine officer: "We are reducing manpower to pay our bills. There is no sense in having a force like the Marine Corps if it does not have the means...
...would assume, however, the Council could make substitutions for faculty drop-outs in the fall without too much hardship. After all, the ERG has managed to set up its subcommittees and has already met four or five times...