When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.

One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.

The authors documented an annual drop of as many as 120,000 cases of heart disease, 66,000 instances of stroke and 99,000 heart attacks caused by high blood pressure after a 3-g-per-day reduction in salt.

If the Great Depression is any guide, we may see a drop in our sky high divorce rate.

bring about a drop in the divorce rate

SAT scores began dropping in 1963;today,on average,30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods.

Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job.

Uh, you can either drop it off at my class or bring it to my office.

Jack asked me to drop off this report.

I was about to drop statistics before they helped me out.

It is cheaper than calling long distance, and a lot more convenient than waiting until Sunday for the telephone rates to drop.

Many students have dropped Prof. Johnson's class.

A drop in oxygen pressure can cause headaches in certain individuals.

Carpets, for instance, seem to be slightly better places to drop your food than wood or tile.

However, some parents are concerned that it encourages their children to drop litter so they can watch the birds to pick it up.

Many students drop out of online courses because of the lack of teaching support.

Shifting eating habits, including a sharp drop in consumption of sparkling drinks, have forced radical change on the industry.

Some viewers of her cooking show, The French Chef, insist they saw Child drop lamb on the floor and pick it up, with the advice that if they were alone in the kitchen, their guests would never know.

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35.

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age.

When an object did not drop out of the bottom of a rattling container, they looked at it for a longer time than they did when the container behaved as expected.

Sales dropped sharply in its physical stores.

Oil prices have dropped by over 60% since June 2014.

In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( ' , especially from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes.

Mr.Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a secondhand bookstore? According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates.

Testing innovations do no good unless the good experiments are identified and expanded and the bad ones are dropped.

In 2009, the number dropped to 9%.

The number of smokers has dropped more sharply than in the UK.

For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

Rising more than 1,000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.

On the other hand, the death rate from flu dropped from 7.4% in 2000 to 4.1% in 2014.

In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.

Twenty years later, it was purposefully dropped to make way for Negro.

Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

Among public colleges and universities, the number drops to roughly one in 10.

Moreover, home prices barely dropped.

Both stocks and homes, more widely held, dropped more

Spending on such "durables" dropped at a 12% annual rate in 2008's third quarter, a 20% rate in the fourth.

That's what happens when you're the world's biggest creditor: you get to drop hints like that, which would be enough by themselves to create international economic chaos if they were ever leaked.

Their bank savings rate dropped to zero.

Often they wind up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out.

Why do some students drop out after a year or two according to the author

Drop in bias Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who runs a website that measures implicit bias using similar test, has also observed a small drop in bias in the 700,000 visitors to the site since January 2007, which might be explained by Obama's rise to popularity

Bias against blacks has experienced an unusual drop.

He is going to drop the physics course

What about dropping you at the south gate and I'll find parking somewhere else.

The technology has been successfully applied overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical problems

Why do the man say she would drop cups of tea at people occasionally?

But now a systematic review and analysis of studies by Canadian researchers found that not only does pasta not cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop more than half a kilogram over four months.

kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand especially from eme

Look, I'm terribly sorry to drop in this time on Friday, Paul, but it is rather important.

The researchers also note the recession hit some years before we see the beginning of the well-being drop, and before the steepest well-being decline, which occurred in 2013.

This is in comparison with a drop of just under 1% in the total yogurt and kefir market according to natural and organic market research company SpiNS.