Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...branch of the World Health Organization has found that because of the decline of breast-feeding, deaths from malnutrition now peak in the third and fourth months. According to World Bank nutritionist Dr. Alan Berg, the past two decades have seen the average age of the onset of malnutrition drop from 18 to eight months in several of the countries he studies. This difference in age is critical because the first two years after birth is the most vulnerable period of brain development...
Brown upset Princeton Wednesday to drop the Tigers to 2-1, and put the 3-1 Crimson into second place behind 4-0 Cornell. Harvard takes on the Tigers at home Saturday...
...brief and pleasant mixture of drollness and terror. But the two don't mix well, and we inevitably lose come of the shock value of the play's blood if we're too bad everyone working on the show couldn't agree to squeeze out every last drop of melodrama...
...Business School lot. Whether they are visiting a friend, packing to leave, or grabbing a meal, students often return to find an empty space, their car now in the possession of Pat's. (Burns says, however, that under the agreement between Harvard and Pat's, the tow truck should drop the car without charge if a student comes out to claim his car before the truck has pulled away...
...British get more excited about budgets than most people. "Too cautious," groused a Trades Union Congress chieftain. "Politically timid," grumbled Confederation of British Industry President John Greenborough. Healey himself was partly to blame. Expansive and voluble, he is given to flights of optimism. For example, he has predicted a drop in the inflation rate this year to 7%-down from the present 9.1% rate and a peak of 26% three years ago-for so long that if it is achieved, as expected, it will be anticlimactic. Similarly, the budget dominated the news for days before its presentation, and the result...