Dropped
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This is already apparent in Europe, where bank equity prices have
dropped
steadily in recent months.
Many classmates
dropped
out of school after becoming pregnant.
The only independent national broadcaster, Dozhd, was
dropped
by satellite and cable services in 2014.
As a result, despite capital injections of approximately €47 billion (€41 billion in 2013 and another €6 billion in 2015), the taxpayer’s equity share
dropped
from more than 65% to less than 26%, while hedge funds and foreign investors (for example, John Paulson, Brookfield, Fairfax, Wellington, and Highfields) grabbed 74% of the banks’ equity for a mere €5.1 billion investment.
The World Bank estimates that for the first time in human history, the global poverty rate
dropped
to single digits in 2015.
No surprise, then, that the percent of students from small towns and villages recently
dropped
to an unprecedented 2%.
As before there were expressions of “deep regret,” a promise of “immediate investigation” and the explanation that
dropped
leaflets had warned families in the region to leave their homes.
The share of workers employed by medium-size Mexican companies – a potential engine of job growth –
dropped
from 41% in 1999 to 38% in 2009.
On a visit to a memorial where the Warsaw Ghetto once stood, Brandt – who had actually fought the Nazis –
dropped
to his knees, his head bowed, in a silent but profound apology on Germany’s behalf.
Indeed, the number of such people may be even smaller than that of medical professionals who have
dropped
out of the field in frustration over being unable to deliver care at the standard they were trained to provide.
Now that prices have dropped, these countries are facing huge imbalances and fiscal strain.
But that plan was thwarted by three Republican senators who would support critical financial-reform legislation – the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act – only if the fee was
dropped.
This has contributed to the erosion of Chinese firms’ profit margins, which, according to TCL Corp Chairman Li Dongsheng, have
dropped
to less than 2%, on average.
Helicopter money comes in two forms, which could (and should) be
dropped
together.
Trump had
dropped
hints that he would pardon Manafort, but he was advised – and for once, he listened – that to do so before November’s midterm congressional elections would be catastrophic for the Republicans and therefore him.
Between May 2010 and September 2011, the value of Greek sovereign debt held by French banks
dropped
by €4.6 billion (39%), while German banks reduced their holdings by €2.9 billion (31%) and Italian banks by €530 million (30%).
So the world market was flooded and prices
dropped.
Indeed, high-school graduation rates
dropped
in Las Vegas as people left school for readily available unskilled construction jobs.
But, beyond this well-trodden battlefield, something amazing has happened: Carbon-dioxide emissions in the United States have
dropped
to their lowest level in 20 years.
Indeed, US carbon emissions have
dropped
some 20% per capita, and are now at their lowest level since Dwight D. Eisenhower left the White House in 1961.
Thirty years ago, when the first elections to the parliament were held, almost two-thirds of the electorate voted, but over the years, participation has
dropped
steadily.
New HIV infections have
dropped
by as much as 50% in some countries in Africa, with AIDS-related deaths down by 30-48%;TB cases have declined by 40%, and malaria cases by 30%.
Soon it emerged that not all its apparent supporters actually supported it; when Chancellor Schroeder's proposed reforms caused squeals within his own party, he quickly
dropped
much of the Third Way program like a hot potato.
As the ratio of its trade deficit with China to its total trade deficit rose to more than 40% from 0.3%, the ratio of its trade deficit with East Asia to its total trade deficit
dropped
to about 50%, from more than 100% in the early 1990s.
But from 2000 to 2015, real GDP shrank slightly, while real per capita income
dropped
by 0.5%.
In the extremely unlikely scenario that attacks
dropped
by 25%, the world would save about US$22 billion.
Less than one week before Papandreou
dropped
his bombshell, eurozone leaders had spoken unequivocally: “The introduction of the European Semester has fundamentally changed the way our fiscal and economic policies are coordinated at European level, with co-ordination at EU level now taking place before national decisions are taken.”
In his closing statement, he
dropped
a bombshell: he claimed that Wang Lijun, his former police chief and henchman (and a “vile character”), was secretly in love with his wife.
The stock market
dropped
sharply.
The authorities called it a suicide, but survivors say that, for fun, the guards unscrewed one of the wooden planks from the wall and
dropped
it on Stus’s head as he lay sleeping.
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