Word: dropping
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Violent crimes decreased slightly more than property crimes, showing an 11 percent drop...
...market value has fallen by half. Revenues stumbled 8%, to $2.8 billion, in fiscal 1997. Operating profits at the company, situated in the Hudson River valley, have fallen for the past four years, from $393.7 million to $227.8 million (adjusted for restructuring). In January, Digest posted a 35% drop in its second-quarter earnings--the sixth straight quarter of bad news...
...million shares (30%) of the company's nonvoting stock. They supply money directly to a few elite New York City institutions, including the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the company slashed its dividend in July, these institutions were confronted by a drop in their yearly payouts from $58.7 million to $29.4 million. The funds, for instance, provided $8.2 million, or 11%, of the $75 million operating budget of the Wildlife Conservation Society, the New York Times reported. The dividend cut could cost the society $2 million, the amount it costs to keep...
...honor of British Prime Minister TONY BLAIR. Katzenberg had been lobbying John to sing a tune he didn't write for the very-high-stakes upcoming DreamWorks animated film Prince of Egypt. Unfortunately, John doesn't do songs he didn't write. Enter HILLARY CLINTON. (Seemingly a casual drop-by, she was actually there by prearrangement with Katzenberg in the hope that she would find John with STEVIE WONDER so she could urge the two to perform a duet at the dinner.) She greeted them, then asked John if he was going to sing a song for Prince of Egypt...
...committee released its annual report last Wednesday, and while the numbers show a drop in complaints, McCavana says the apparent decrease is due only to a change in reporting procedure...