Word: plummetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when they're already well on the way down, but when they're still in the air. It seems silly to intervene only at the latest possible stage; sure, it may prevent actual suicides, absolving Harvard of guilt, but it will not spare students the terror of the plummet...
...outlet for the billions of dollars they earn from their exports, buy heavily in U.S. Treasury bills. By virtue of the trade deficit, Japan's holdings of U.S. Treasuries are huge. If Japan ever started selling those bonds, U.S. interest rates would rise and the stock market would plummet. As a Japanese official put it, "Japan can pull the trigger on U.S. financial markets." But Japan would hurt itself in the process. The rise in rates and the drop of the U.S. dollar would make it more difficult for the U.S. to pay its debts, and for its consumers...
With these abysmal odds, a man clearly needs every last sperm cell he's got. Any fewer than 20 million or so per ml of semen--40 million to 120 million in a typical ejaculation--and his chances of fathering a child begin to plummet. That's why doctors are so concerned about a trend they have noticed over the past few years. In study after study, sperm counts in men the world over seem to be dropping precipitously...
Many Wall Street watchers are worried that the lofty prices of some IPO shares could soon plummet. "I think we've got a bubble here," says Daniel Miller, managing director of the $20 billion Putnam group of mutual funds, based in Boston. "The first things thrown out in a bad market are the newer ipos." The risks only grow when mutual-fund managers--the institutional investors who are driving much of the stock boom--find themselves with little time to evaluate new issues. Nearly 40 new companies went public the week of Dec. 10 alone, as many as might have...
Under a flat tax, the middle class would pay about the same or even a little more in Federal income tax than they pay now. Barring a magical supply-side rejuvenation of the economy, tax revenues would plummet, forcing further reductions in government services. However, Forbes has made the flat tax the corner-stone of his campaign and it is responsible for much of his success...