Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colleges and its average price for pot of $40 per oz. offered an attractive market to smugglers. Says Edward Cass, regional director of the Drug Enforcement Administration: "Someone would buy a boat, pick up a crew at some marina, go down to Jamaica or Colombia and drop a ton of the grass off on the Florida coast, a ton off at the Carolinas, then a ton in Rhode Island and in Maine." Most of the smugglers were young adventurers (including some from as far away as Australia) with no serious criminal backgrounds, and many headed for the state of Maine...
Nowhere is uncertainty more pernicious than in the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average, down more than 16% so far this year, closed last week at 839.14, down 17.67, its lowest level since December 1975. Some members of the Board of Economists are fearful that the drop will have an unsettling psychological effect on the whole economy. One reason is that the market is regarded as a highly visible-but far from infallible-indicator of future business trends. Studies have shown that over a 100-year period, of 43 expansions and recessions, stock prices anticipated 75% of the business...
...annual inflation rate declined from 17.6% in July to 16.5% in August and is expected to drop to 12%-13% by the end of the year...
...schools' major objection to the law is that they will have no voice in the transfer process: HEW, in fact, will summarily assign eligible students to existing openings. Med schools rarely accept transfers anyway, since very few good students tend to drop out. Thus the schools, which A.A.M.C. says have doubled their enrollment in the past decade, will be forced to fit even more students into facilities already filled to capacity. More important, many of the foreign medical schools are considered inadequate by U.S. standards, and many Americans studying medicine there are likely to be rejects from U.S. schools...
...horny faun who spends his afternoon chasing-and being rejected by-nubile nudes; a serpent whose proffered apple is spurned by Adam and Eve and who makes the mistake of swallowing it himself, only to be driven to despair by modern society; a spilled drop of Coke that becomes the primal seed for an army of fantastic monsters; a tidy bee whose neat little world is crushed by the love thrashings of a monstrous (to her eyes) human couple...