Word: plummetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the Clinton plan is a positive development. Cutting the deficit is an obvious first step toward eventually reducing the national debt. Slowing our plummet into the red is something two Republican administrations were unable to do--President Bush certainly wouldn't have done it if he had been reelected...
...tight is the ECAC race? Clarkson split its weekend (a 3-0 shutout of Cornell and a 5-2 loss to Colgate), causing the team to plummet from fourth to seventh in the league...
These impacts blasted enough dust into the atmosphere to shroud the entire globe for months on end, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. In the cold and dark, plants and animals perished. Compelling evidence of such cataclysms was revealed last summer: scientists confirmed that a giant crater, 176 km (110 miles) across, discovered under the northern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was the likely impact point of a huge object, probably a comet, believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other forms of life 65 million years...
...demand for a discarded bean bag chair or a moldedover refrigerator may plummet after summer storage closes, but tickets and hotel reservations are always hot items...
...vulgarity, hatred and violence that Ice-T carries around from his "formative" years in s.c. L.A. It begins disarmingly--a little skit where Ice-T approaches a parked police car to ask for assistance--but the ditty, and its ensuing musical accompaniment, "Body Count's in the House," plummet to the horrifying depths of police brutality and Ice-T's vision of revenge...