Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Church of England doesn't want women priests [Nov. 20] because the men are afraid they'll lose their jobs. Women in England who seek the priesthood should drop the rhetoric and address the issue: job discrimination. The priesthood may be a calling, but it is also a means of earning a living, like any other...
...rooms and meeting space for truly major gatherings like the Offshore Technology Conference (78,000) or the American Medical Association (30,000). With site selection thus limited, those groups often book five, sometimes ten years ahead. If you find yourself in San Francisco during Jan. 26 to 30, 1985, drop in on the National Automobile Dealers Association. Ski Industries America has booked its conventions at the Las Vegas Hilton through the year...
...kidney center now costs some $25,000 a patient; the dialysis bill for the nation as a whole, which is footed by the U.S. Government, totals $1 billion a year. By contrast, the tab for a CAPD patient is only about $8,000 a year, and is likely to drop as the technique becomes more popular. Says Nolph: "We have here one of those rare circumstances in modern times where something is not only potentially better, but cheaper. That combination doesn't happen very often...
Amid declining investment markets and federal belt-tightening maneuvers, the endowment's market value slipped back to $1.39 billion, a $60 million drop. Tuition, room and board fees have continued to climb, gradually assuming more and more of the total percentage of income to the University...
...general worsening of the country's economic health. Unemployment now siphons off 8.2 per cent of the labor force, and this figure, bad as it is, conceals severe regional disparities and unknown numbers of the 'hidden unemployed.' Canadian inflation is running at 8.6 per cent, and the dramatic drop in value of the Canadian dollar on international money markets is expected to help sustain this high rate...