Word: dropping
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...industries have been so immediately and painfully dented by the oil crunch as U.S. automaking. Mainly because of scarce gas and exploding prices, car sales have skidded from an annual rate of about 12 million units in March to roughly 10 million today, a drop of 26% from last year's record mid-June pace. A main contributor to the slump is buyers' snubbing of luxury and even standard models, while the demand for fuel-thrifty small cars is far outstripping Detroit's ability to produce them. Buyers are increasingly turning to Toyotas, Volkswagens and other economically...
...goes into the last round knowing that he needs a knockout to win, President General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle last week threw every punch he could muster at his opponents. From his windowless bunker in Nicaragua's embattled capital of Managua, he ordered air force helicopters to drop 500-lb. bombs and oil drums filled with liquid explosives on the barrios that rebels of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) have controlled for the past three weeks. The savage air attacks killed hundreds of innocent civilians, who were unable to reach the precarious safety of makeshift shelters or flee...
...minutes before he could utter a word. 'I hate to see a grown man cry, but I didn't blame him,' Searcy said later. The captain was 'surprised' that some of the pilots didn't take the battle into their own hands and drop bombs against orders."He 'wouldn't have blamed them...
...undercut the competition with a $10 digital record of Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in hot pursuit of a Bartok concerto. Warner Bros. Records, Inc., will bring out its first digital record next month, Ry Cooder's lively excursion into rhythm and blues, Bop Till You Drop. Warner is thus the first major American record company to release a nonclassical digital album, one that proves digital will make everything sound better, whether it has sweep or whether it has soul...
...decreasing the amount of ventilation, costs of cooling William James Hall will drop by about $2000 a month, Eugene J. Arcand Jr., assistant director for facilities, said yesterday. Energy costs for the Science Center will probably drop even more than that, Arcand added...