• Sea urchins graze the kelp that lobsters use as cover, so the initial drop in bottom-feeders did not benefit lobsters since although they had fewer predators, they were more exposed.

    ECONOMIST: Lobsters in Maine

  • However, with Inverness beaten at Kilmarnock, Accies cannot drop into the bottom slot on the final weekend of the season.

    BBC: Hamilton Accies 0-3 Motherwell

  • Just after Discovery's engines fired, launch controllers noticed a small rectangular object drop from the bottom of the ship, carom off an engine bell and vanish into the exhaust flames.

    CNN: Victory Lap

  • Taken altogether, these pressures drop us to the bottom of the U in the U-shaped curve of happiness.

    FORBES: Study: Humans Aren't the Only Apes that Have a Midlife Crisis

  • If you try to account for outliers and drop the top and bottom team in each conference, you get in the East nearly the same thing and in the west 64% to 41%.

    FORBES: How Does Parity Compare Among Major U.S. Sports Leagues?

  • When memory chip maker LG Semi-con of South Korea decided to go public this year, it could not have foreseen that the bottom would drop out of the market for its primary product.

    CNN: Going to the People

  • Reduced operating costs drop profit straight to the bottom line.

    FORBES: With eSignature, Only Four Speeds Of Fast Forward For Your Business

  • The credit crunch has finally shown up on the U.S. economy's bottom line--a drop-off in consumer spending led to a contraction in gross-domestic product for the third quarter.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Furniture stores have higher margins and convenience stores have very small ones but no matter what the industry a drop in margin has an impact on the bottom.

    FORBES: There Is Nothing Gross About Profit

  • If Moseley fail to pick up three points next week, then either 11th-placed Leamington, or even bottom club Bromsgrove, can escape the drop with a 24-point maximum from their final game.

    BBC: Cricket

  • American International Group recorded a steep decline in first-quarter earnings Thursday, as some of its prime international assets are now delivering profits to the bottom line of rivals, and the drop comes amid reports of tension with government rescuers.

    FORBES: AIG Earnings Plummet After Asset Sales, Charges

  • Meanwhile, the top 1% of earners saw their tax payments climb to 3.3% of GDP in 2007 from 1.5% of GDP in 1978, while the bottom 95% saw their tax payments drop to 3.2% of GDP in 2007 from 5.4% of GDP in 1978.

    WSJ: Arthur B. Laffer: Class Warfare and the Buffett Rule

  • The catalyst was Nike, which posted earnings after the bell on Thursday and, despite a top and bottom-line beat, saw profits drop 12% and margins compress.

    FORBES: Stocks Going For The Comeback: Spanish Stress Tests Trump Bad PMI Data As RIM Cuts Gains

  • However, Leeds still had time to mount one last attack and Thomas coolly slotted a drop-goal between the sticks to give rock-bottom Carnegie some reward for their efforts.

    BBC: Saracens 21-15 Leeds

  • The bottom line is that chances of getting the right strategy drop dramatically if you have outsourced your technology strategy to a vendor or integrator.

    FORBES: Why You Cannot Rely on Vendors for Your IT Strategy

  • The different colors of paint are gathered in trays at the bottom of your screen, allowing you to drag and drop them on the press.

    FORBES: Unleash your inner Gutenberg with LetterMpress

  • After a match of few chances, both were left nine points behind fourth bottom Aston Villa and with no mathematical chance of avoiding the drop.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • High school students from families at the bottom 20 percent income group are six times more likely to drop out than students from higher-income families.

    CNN: Commentary: Give kids a beacon of hope

  • And they had plenty of possession and territory, overcoming the loss of scrum-half Warren Fury to the sin-bin in the first half to even lead 6-3 at one stage, when full-back Thomas's penalty was followed by Scott Barrow's drop goal six minutes from half-time - fair reward for the bottom club's spirit and competitiveness at the breakdown.

    BBC: Bath 16-13 Leeds

  • Despite a 31% drop since the beginning of the year, it still may be premature to call a bottom for the Nasdaq Composite.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Residents who are violent, drop litter, keep untidy gardens and have nuisance pets also face being placed at the bottom of the repairs and improvements list.

    BBC: North East Wales

  • Joe Kinnear, confirmed as Newcastle manager until the end of the season 24 hours before kick-off, will be happy with a point that takes them out of the bottom three of the Premier League as arch-rivals Sunderland fall into the drop zone.

    BBC: Middlesbrough 0-0 Newcastle

  • Moreover, he says farmers are less concerned about a drop in crop prices at the top of the market, than about similar declines at the bottom.

    ECONOMIST: Agriculture

  • Then, after Juan Martin Hernandez had crashed a drop goal against the post, the Pumas retook possession and prop Hasan was there at the bottom of a pile of bodies to ground.

    CNN: Superb Argentina stun France again

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