Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time Operation Lifeline grew alarmed enough at the escalating shortages in mid-April to press Khartoum to reopen southern air strips and drop zones, it did not have enough chartered planes to make deliveries: it had just one C-130 Hercules, which can carry 16 tons of cargo, and two smaller Buffalos. At the end of April, the Sudanese government grudgingly gave clearance for three more chartered C-130s. Soon four big Ilyushin-76s (cargo capacity: 32 tons) are also to be allowed in. With this beefed-up air service, deliveries will soon reach 10,000 tons a month. That...
...fashioned Flint, Mich., spread to this Southern paradise. The Flint strike shut off critical parts to the company, forcing the closure of 26 assembly plants and 100 component factories across North America and idling 186,000 workers. The strike is weighing on the economy too, contributing to a 0.6% drop in industrial output in June. The Saturn factory is the only GM plant in the U.S. still turning out cars. Leaders at Saturn's Local 1853, angry over a management decision to cut negotiated bonuses from $1,400 to $390, among other issues, planned a vote for Sunday on whether...
...months, following its development through a vast network of buoys tethered to the sea floor, it slowly expanded up and east, toward South America. Now, like a spume-blowing whale, it has broken through to the surface, forcing temperatures across a 5,000-mile strip of ocean to drop more than 15[degrees]F in just four weeks...
These high, demand-driven prices become, in a sense, a self-fulfilling prophecy. So-called short sellers--speculators who borrow stock and then sell it in the expectation that its price will drop--have been furiously buying back shares in recent months to cut their losses as the stock goes up. But such panicky buying only serves to raise prices higher still. So do hopes that a FORTUNE 500 giant will pour big bucks into an Internet company. Disney did just that last month when it acquired a 43% stake in InfoSeek, the third largest Internet search engine...
...funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman ANATOLY TKACHYOV, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending orbits. If its interlocking modules successfully separate, the station will then tumble piece by piece to earth; Moscow hopes that whatever bits of the 120-ton space station don't burn up in free fall will quietly splash down. It's not coincidental that the talk of pulling...