Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delivered a 30-minute funeral oration for the dead. "Is it human rights," he asked in a bitter if oblique reference to President Carter, "when we say we want to name a government and we get a cemetery full of people?" Then a boys' chorus sang: "May every drop of their blood turn to tulips and grow forever. Arise! Arise! Arise...
Manos's idealism is balanced by a recognition of PBH's limitations. "Sure we help in the community, but it's only a drop in the bucket. How much can we do? That's a good question," she says...
Despite the large number of volunteers at PBH, the turnover rate is estimated to be as high as 50 per cent. Manos attributes the drop-out figures to volunteers' other academic and extracurricular activities. "I haven't known many people who dropped out for other reasons," she says...
...overall drop is attributable to the decline in use of estrogen over the last three years, Hershel said...
...needs the U.S. has pledged to fulfill in the event of shortages. If the flow of Iranian oil remains stopped up for very long, the industrial nations will have to begin sharing the still available supplies. If that happens, the U.S. could suffer much more than a 5% drop in its normal supply and availability of crude...