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Many farmers are economically shattered or simply unemployed. The estimated average annual income of working members of farming families is expected to plummet from $10,500 last year to $2,000. Ranchers' problems are in turn spilling over to related businesses. Austin Ryan, who sells rural machinery in Warracknabeal, Victoria, has cut his staff from 28 to three. Kevin Webb of Leeton, New South Wales, who is accustomed to selling up to 320 bins of wheat a season, has sold only four this year. Small outposts, which have no source of revenue outside of farming, may vanish altogether...
...profits plummet, the biggest oil company cuts back...
...quantum theory suggest that these single-poled units, or "monopoles," would have immense mass, about 10 million billion times that of a proton at rest. Placed on a table, a monopole would prove so heavy in relation to its size that it would fall through the table and plummet until it settled in the core of the earth. Described by scientists as "twists of space," monopoles are believed to have been formed during the Big Bang that marked the beginning of the universe...
This is not to say that Kleinfelder should not have been released. The final decision Reardon made was a proper one. Over the past two seasons, Kleinfelder has compiled a meager 12-39 record and her most recent campaign saw the squad's mark plummet to a dismal 4-21. (But, keep in mind, at Harvard it takes more than just a losing record to dismiss a coach...
...major earthquake rocks Cambridge, opening a 70-foot-deep chasm through the middle of Harvard Yard.. As a result, the University renames Wigglesworth A, B and C entries in honor of Charles Richter '45. Admissions officials say applications from tremor-shy southern Californians plummet...