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The following Monday, the S&P 500
dropped
almost 7%.
Since 1988, the number of annual cases of polio worldwide has
dropped
more than 99.9%.
The probability that a drug entering clinical trials will gain approval from the US Food and Drug Administration has
dropped
from 23.9% in 1997 to 10.4% today.
With higher interest rates, that $755 billion could still have been as high as $735 billion, or it could have
dropped
to as low as $700 billion.
And yet Meles is irreplaceable – unmatched intellectually as an African leader (he
dropped
out of medical school, but went on to teach himself impeccable English and obtain European university degrees by correspondence), and unmatched politically at home, with no obvious successor groomed to replace him.
In the United States, the fast-food giant McDonald's banned them from its menu; food manufacturers Heinz and Gerber (then a division of Switzerland-based Novartis)
dropped
them from their baby-food lines; and Frito-Lay demanded that its growers stop planting corn engineered to contain a bacterial protein that confers resistance to insect predation.
One possible explanation for the divergence between credit and GDP growth is that potential growth has already
dropped
to 7%.
Argentina has offered to compensate the company at “fair” market value, to be determined at some future date – presumably when the floor has
dropped
out of Repsol’s share price, which initially plunged nearly 60% from its previous high, and is still down 40%.
According to a Gallup poll, trust in US leadership across 134 countries has
dropped
from a median of 48% in 2016 to 30% in 2018, plummeting by 40 points (or more) in Canada, Portugal, Belgium, and Norway.
Or will fiscal pressures lead, in some countries, to vaccine shortages, to declines in immunization coverage, or even, in the worst case, to vaccines being
dropped
altogether from national programs, reversing the hard-won gains of recent years?
Growth rates last year in Colombia and even Peru, which has performed better than any other Latin American country since 2000, also
dropped
significantly.
In Africa, per capita GNP
dropped
at an average rate of .7%
That was the final lesson of Weimar politics: it was when the international order had disintegrated that the gains from domestic cooperation looked meager and the cost of radical rhetoric
dropped.
Although still electorally dominant, the party’s parliamentary representation has
dropped
below the two-thirds threshold required to change the constitution.
With the risk of devaluation gone, interest-rate spreads
dropped
precipitously, and so did borrowing costs.
Moreover, in the wake of the euro crisis, SNP leaders have
dropped
their old plan to embrace the euro and now say that they will keep the pound.
In the last year, the dollar’s value
dropped
by 12% against the euro, which is a more important currency than the dollar in Ukraine’s foreign trade.
In the 1950s and 1960s, an average of some 300,000 houses were being built every year; that figure has now
dropped
to less than half.
Companies and/or individuals would buy insurance policies, pay a regular premium for them, and receive a benefit if some measure of the economy, such as GDP growth,
dropped
below a specified level.
Indeed, confronted with her lead, both Jospin and Hollande have
dropped
out of the race.
Meanwhile, the fraction of international reserves held in euros grew from 18% to 24%, and the dollar’s share
dropped
from 71% to 66%.
The Gini score also
dropped
in South Asia.
Shortly afterwards, the US military, having received “total authorization” for action from its commander-in-chief,
dropped
a massive ordinance air blast (MOAB) bomb – the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal – on Afghanistan.
The US military under Trump, by contrast,
dropped
the “mother of all bombs.”
In the past, the Czech Republic and Poland also sought reciprocation from the Kremlin, but Russian officials have dismissed as “ridiculous” the idea of granting Czech or Polish representatives’ access to Russian defense sites, even for short-term inspections, and the Czechs and Poles appear to have
dropped
the idea.
Leaflets
dropped
on villages announced, “The Vietcong hide among innocent women and children in your villages….If the Vietcong in this area use you or your village for this purpose, you can expect death from the sky.”
Afterward, more leaflets were dropped, informing villagers, “Your village was bombed because you harbored Vietcong….Your village will be bombed again if you harbor the Vietcong in any way.”
During the 2009 trough, the figure was 11% lower – and it has since
dropped
by an additional 5%.
The Japanese firm Eisai
dropped
its price for Aricept, an Alzheimer’s treatment in six Asian countries.
Simply put, bombs
dropped
from several thousands meters do not kill less indiscriminately than explosive charges placed in train cars.
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