Word: drops
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...Asia offered no joy either. Manufacturing data released Monday made it clear the global recession was undermining the previously robust Chinese economy. It wasn't the only one suffering. Japan reported a steep drop in car sales, while South Korea said it was experiencing the same kind...
...study, also in J.A.M.A., found that nurse home visits were associated with a nearly 50% drop in rates of substantiated child abuse or neglect in new families and that visits increased the amount of time between a mother's first and second pregnancies. Rates of hypertension, which is known to interfere with fetal brain development, were also reduced. And mothers spent less time on welfare and worked more...
This brings up a bigger question though. Why do we still call it add/drop? Why not just drop? Who is still shopping classes a month into the semester? Is there any class you could walk into today, add it, and not fail? Maybe Politics of Congress. But not much else...
...nine river and three Quad Houses, with a $1 billion price tag. But last Tuesday, Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced that construction of two new residential colleges on that campus, in addition to other construction projects, will be delayed, citing a projected 25 percent drop in Yale’s endowment by June. University President Drew G. Faust also forecasted a similarly significant endowment drop of roughly 30 percent by the end of this academic year. Still, Suzy M. Nelson, the associate dean of residential life, said that the need for House renewal will take precedence?...
...Political bias has dogged the UN investigation since its inception. It is widely held that the UN investigation owes its existence to the interests of the U.S., which saw it as a useful tool to pressure Damascus into better behavior in Iraq, cease meddling in Lebanese affairs and to drop its backing for militant anti-Israel groups such as Lebanon?s Shi?ite Hizballah...