Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...producers such as Case and Cummins Engine, whose profits fell steeply in the third quarter of the year. Then there is the so-called wealth effect. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of the dangers of removing more than $1.5 trillion in business and consumer wealth because of the market drop. Said the chairman: "We're bound to see a major impact in personal-consumption expenditures and housing...
...economy--and Europe's, for that matter--is about to be sucked into the Asian vortex. If so, that could well guarantee an American recession. And even if the economy shrinks slightly--a condition we are learning to call a "growth recession"--the result would be a drop in the rate of economic growth...
...accident and must travel from heaven to hell to save his wife (Annabella Sciorra) after she commits suicide in her despair over his death. Although the plot is the standard quest situation, it demands that the film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams can become sullen and morose in a place decorated in grand color-by-number style where a person's every wish is fulfilled? Cuba Gooding...
...recent past, although the numbers may drop from fall to spring, undergraduate dining halls report a steady group of student employees. Because payroll is computed by student work hours and not by the number of students paid, payroll officials cannot verify the actual number of employees but reports from dining hall managers indicate that about 20 students are currently at work in the dining halls...
Admissions officials could not be reached for comment, but Sozinho said they have accounted for the drop by pointing to a higher number of black students deferring enrollment in this year's class...