130. As a result of medical advances, many people who might once have died in childhood of such infections as diphtheria, pneumonia, or rheumatic fever now live well into old age.

131. Cajuns speak a dialect brought to southern Louisiana by the 4,000 Acadians who migrated there in 1755; their language is basically seventeenth-century French to which English, Spanish, and Italian words have been added.

132. One view of the economy contends that a large drop in oil prices should eventually lead to a lowering of interest rates and of fears about inflation, a rally in stocks and bonds, and a weakening of the dollar.

133. Although the term "psychopath" is popularly applied to an especially brutal criminal, in psychology it rers to someone who is apparently incapable of feeling compassion or the pangs of conscience.

134. Recently implemented "shift-work equations" based on studies of the human sleep cycle have reduced sickness, sleeping on the job, and fatigue among shift workers while raising production ficiency in various industries.

135. Spanning more than 50 years, Friedrich Muller&aposs career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow.

136. Joachim Raft and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status.

137. The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected and that its business would improve in the second half of the year.

138. The direction in which the Earth and the other solid planets-Mercury, Venus, and Mars-spin was determined by collisions with giant celestial bodies in the early history of the solar system.

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