Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME'S State Department correspondent for the past three years, Christopher Ogden became accustomed to constant foreign travel at the drop of an olive branch. In the past two years alone, Ogden logged 200,000 miles with Cyrus Vance, including six trips to the Middle East. So it was with unpacked bags and undisguised relief that he began his new assignment last week as TIME White House correspondent. His first scheduled trip late this month with the President: to Elk City, Okla., a place that Carter promised to revisit if he were elected. Only hours later, however, the President...
...lower the percentage of men in its student body from 80% to about 70%, that was still short of "equality." Many people doubted that Radcliffe's young, soft-spoken new "president would win further concessions, especially since Harvard's old guard feared that alumni donations would drop if more women replaced Harvard's sons. "I listened to the arguments very carefully," Horner recalls, "and finally said how interesting it was that all the evidence seemed to show that Harvard alumni had only male children...
...increase in the number of applicants, other Harvard graduate schools admissions offices witnessed a national trend away from postgraduate education. The Law School suffered a decline of 7 per cent, and officials at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)--who say they have been expecting a large drop in applicant numbers for several years--report a 15 per cent decline from last year...
...higher than the average return on common stocks. Because 46 per cent of Harvard's stocks are in MOSA companies, exclusion of those corporations as possible investments would lead to an annual 46-per-cent reduction in the increased dividends, the committee stated. That, in addition to an expected drop in donations of securities, would result in estimated losses of $4.8 to 9.8 million annually...
...machine that crushed its own in the basement of the Lubyanka. Especially because of the Soviet redemptive passion that ended in the Gulag, revolution in this century has lost much of its violent romance. Outsiders have learned not to judge revolutions quickly. They wait for the other boot to drop...