Word: plummet
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After a long year, the Crimson had a few answers, but even those took so long in coming that it caused Harvard to plummet from 11-3 (5-1 Ivy) in 1998 to 3-10 (1-5 Ivy) in 1999. Harvard also went from a team unfairly snubbed by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee in 1998 to a squad that just wanted...
...feet a minute ? 10 times faster than the normal rate of descent. Investigators aren?t sure what that says about the cause of the crash, other than that the problem was severe, and the plane was out of control. To TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin, that final plummet is a sign that the pilot simply took on more than he was qualified for. "Anyone who has flown regularly on the East Coast in summer knows that the horizon can disappear completely in the haze," says Hannifin. One scenario: Kennedy began a normal turn, and then lost sight of the horizon...
After a long year, the Crimson had a few answers, but even those took so long in coming that it caused Harvard to plummet from 11-3 (5-1 Ivy) in 1998 to 3-10 (1-5 Ivy) in 1999. Harvard also went from a team unfairly snubbed by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee in 1998 to a squad that just wanted...
MARS Magnetism suggests it's basically like Earth. So why bother going? Tourism predicted to plummet...
...embroiled in a banana dispute with Europe, which also doesn't grow bananas? Answer: Before the E.U. imposed the current banana regime in 1993, non-E.U. companies controlled 95% of the European banana market. Since then, American companies like Chiquita and Dole have seen their European market share plummet 50%. Hardest hit has been Chiquita, which has lost money four of the past five years--the result, company officials insist, of being denied access to the European market...