This is because, for a newborn baby, it is well known that pulmonary resistance is very high, falls precipitously after the first breath, and continues to fall over the first few weeks of his life.
From the main ridge, the slopes drop very steeply, but not precipitously, to the floor of the notch.
If they'd dug deeper they would've realized that Spider-Man 3, which wasn't a very good movie, dropped off precipitously in its subsequent weeks, while Iron Man, which is a good summer movie (93% on Rotten Tomatoes), has legs.
Perhaps because it doesn't wear well, sales of the Smart (still very strong in Europe) have dropped precipitously in the U.S.
If we don't value and support the dedication, competence and expertise of college professors -- tenured and non-tenured, permanent and temporary -- the quality of intellectual life on our campuses will precipitously decline -- a very dear price to pay when our goal is to prepare students, who represent the future, to think in and adapt to a complex and changing world.
In the second part of this article, we will see how Alan Rinzler's life as a premier editor has continued into the current age, in which the very manner of publishing itself is changing precipitously and profoundly.
Remarkably, levels of medium, long-chain, and very long-chain acylcarnitine species that fell precipitously in liver and heart of fed MED13cTg mice (Fig 5D and E, Supplementary Tables S1 and S3) were maintained at the same levels in the serum of fed MED13cTg and WT mice (Fig 5F, Supplementary Table S5).
During this time period "youth violence dropped precipitously", the researchers write, "despite maintaining very high levels of media violence in society with the introduction of videogames".
Instead, Mr. Miller said, rents are likely to "bump along at this very high level, but not increase or decrease precipitously, at least over the next year".
Together with recent cutbacks in output at DaimlerChrysler, the moves by Ford and G.M. were the clearest signs yet that the auto industry, still the mainstay of the economy in the Great Lakes states, has slowed precipitously after nearly seven years of very strong sales.
