A drop below 80 means that municipal bonds are "too rich" compared with government securities, he said.

There are said to be some mystic rivers one drop of which can steal a man's life away.

A drop of good home brew,' said the younger man.

Forget, for a moment, what the drop might say about how inflated the earnings reported to shareholders have come to be.

Every drop of blood in me says this country is mine.

"Almost the last drop of the Smaug vintage," he said.

But the drop in the death toll "is so big, there is nothing else that can account for it" except the city's strategies, he said.

"It is quite ready," said the third drop of blood.

The trade deficit narrowed to $5.77 billion, a drop of 3.9 percent, the Commerce Department said.