The Hokies (6-1) plummeted from a national rank of No. 3 in the Associated Press news media poll to No. 10, but they now have an immediate chance to move up the rankings' conga line by defeating the Hurricanes (7-0) at home on Saturday.
(Els ended 2010 ranked No. 12, plummeted to No. 68 by the end of 2011 and has climbed back to No. 40).
Last Oct. 31, EgyptAir Flight 990 plummeted into the ocean 60 miles south of the Massachusetts island of Nantucket.
In the 2008 financial crisis, Universa funds rose by as much as 115 percent as the S.& P. 500 plummeted.
Officers Shawn Carson, 40, and Robert Nguyen, 30, plummeted from the state-operated bridge into the Hackensack River on Christmas night in 2005.
When American Airlines Flight 587 plummeted into his neighborhood early yesterday morning, the ensuing fireball consumed everything he had.
Southern California (3-2) plummeted from No. 2 in the Times ranking to No. 17 after Ryan Killeen missed an extra point that might have beaten Washington State (5-1) in regulation.
The Nikkei 225 plummeted 1089 points, or 11.4%, to close at 8458, its biggest single-day drop since the stockmarket crash of October 1987.
The researchers found that diagnoses of genital warts among young women ages 12 to 26 plummeted 59 percent in the two years after the program began.
MH370 and MH17 are the same plane Around six months after MH370 vanished, MH17 plummeted to the ground in war-torn eastern Ukraine.
Sony's "Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D" plummeted to fourth place in its second weekend, selling about $10 million in tickets for a new domestic total of about $44 million.
