Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of a bad time for them to be shutting off the heat," Michael A. Fischer '92 said. Yesterday was one of the coldest of the fall, and temperatures were expected to drop into the 30s last night...
...that, to dare to be an individual, an eccentric. In America we don't have a tradition of eccentricity. In this society we're just supposed to go until we drop. We don't even have nervous breakdowns anymore. We have episodes, and then we're expected to be back at work on Monday...
...just 119,000 recently. In a sprawling land where air transportation is vital to daily commerce, the strike is strangling the economy. Hardest hit is tourism, Australia's largest industry. If the strike persists until Christmas, the country's tourism revenues could decline $500 million this year, a 30% drop from 1988. In Melbourne alone, 417 conferences and conventions have been canceled. Unless the strike is settled soon, travel industry experts say that three-fourths of Australia's large hotel chains will be forced to shut down. In a letter to Prime Minister Bob Hawke earlier this month, John McEvoy...
...include a higher proportion of gay males at risk for AIDS. In West Hollywood when the city decided to provide health coverage to its employees' domestic partners, no insurance company would underwrite the business. The city had to resort to self-insurance. So far that has resulted in a drop in costs, but it has not yet encouraged leading insurance companies to consider offering domestic-partnershi p plans...
...prices drop, these devices will become ubiquitous. By 1995 the typical car may contain as many as 50 silicon sensors programmed to control antilock brakes, monitor engine knock and trigger the release of safety air bags. Similar sensors are already employed in the space shuttle Discovery to measure cabin and hydraulic pressures and gauge performance at more than 250 separate points in the craft's main engines...