Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half of U.S. couples had only one child, and the rest none, two or more, then, says McKibben, the population would plateau around 2020, and drop by 2050 to about 230 million, which was the figure two decades ago. McKibben says this plan would require cuts in immigration too. And it wouldn't save the world, but in McKibben's view it would give the nation some breathing space in what he sees as the cramped and critical next half-century. He cites familiar horrifying statistics: each year the nation paves over an area the size of Delaware; the average...
...subsidies will allow banks to drop loan interest rates from 8.23 to 7.43 percent--which translates to savings of $650 to $3,200 for students--but will cost taxpayers up to $3.6 billion over five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office...
...image of her worn body leaning against the steep green drop of the deepest gorge in China's Yunnan province has since remained to haunt me as I prepare to travel to the small town of Degen, less than 50 kilometers from the official Tibetan border...
...released last week a study of birth figures for 1996, one particular set of facts was heralded as Christmas in July: the birthrate among unmarried black women--74.4 per 1,000 births--represented a 40-year low. Best of all, the turnaround is likely to keep going: the sharpest drop is among 15- to 17-year-olds, whose birthrate has declined 20% since...
...that spectacle belied the organization's bleak finances, and P.K. soon announced it was shredding a projected $117 million budget. At the end of March, it laid off its paid staff of 345. At the Washington rally, the head Promise Keeper, Bill McCartney, boldly announced that P.K. would drop the $60 attendance fee, which provided nearly three-quarters of its income, in hopes of bolstering attendance...