Word: plummetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others, like Dr. Karen Hill, who practices internal medicine in Austin, Texas, are learning how to live without managed care. Hill dropped 1,500 managed-care patients last year and saw her income plummet two-thirds. But she's happier treating the remaining 500. "So often we find ourselves practicing insurance rather than medicine," she says. "We need to get back to the reason our profession exists: our patients...
Girls today are in trouble. They lose confidence in early adolescence. Their grades plummet, and, following sexual stereotypes, their interest in math and science flags. They are plagued by eating disorders, suffer depression, get pregnant, attempt suicide. And it all makes headlines, spawns research projects and prompts calls for single-sex education...
...with the devastation that the Russian collapse inflicted on central banks and stock markets in other countries, even those seemingly out of harm's way. Venezuelans stumbled through a valiant, painful defense of their bond market, Brazilians scrambled to save their currency, and Americans watched a nervous stock market plummet, pause and plummet again. Russia's slide was a reminder that every investment is at heart a bet on the future. Last week the future looked awful...
...week before switching from the hypertension drug Posicor--a calcium-channel blocker recalled earlier this month--to an alternative blocker, a new report cautions. Four patients have gone into shock--one died--after changing within 24 hours from Posicor to another drug. The quick switch caused blood pressure to plummet to dangerously low levels...
Queen attributed the plummet to a shaky economy in Asia. In Korea, for instance the dropoff was particularly sharp--from 137 students last year to 30 this year, he said...