Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Manufacturing output and employment are being hurt by the rise in imports and drop in exports. But, Reaser points out, manufacturing "accounts for less than one-fifth of the total U.S. economy." Rising consumer spending has kept the other 80% growing, thanks in her opinion largely to the "wealth effect"--that is, the tendency of rising stock prices to make people feel richer and able to spend freely, even if many of their gains remain on paper. Reaser notes that retail sales rose strongly early in 1998 along with the booming market, faltered in late summer as stock prices dived...
Meyer added that if HMC fails to meet its benchmark this year-"a realistic possibility"-investor compensation would drop "dramatically...
...Duehay attributes the drop in voter turnout to the declining number of candidates rather than political apathy...
...Cambridge's] proportional voting system stirs up a lot of excitement, but the drop in the number of candidates [has lessened this enthusiasm]," he says...
...used a drop-down election formula--theoutgoing president counted votes for thepresidential election, and the unsuccessfulcandidates could then choose to run for the othertwo positions...