" a migrant cleaning woman surnamed Chen texted from an unheated farmhouse near the Beijing airport, as night-time temperatures plunged well below zero last week.
High-divers plunged into the River Seine, trampoline athletes somersaulted inside the Petit Palais art museum and runners raced on a floating track as Paris turned some of its world-famous landmarks over to sports on Friday in hopes of wowing the International Olympic Committee.
For instance, in the months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the number of boys born in New York plunged, while the economic chaos that followed the collapse of the Berlin Wall saw far fewer boys born than expected in the former East Germany in 1991.
As soon as the news came out, Imagination shares plunged by as much as 72%.
Prices promptly plunged.
" Since 2008 the number of births in Spain has plunged by 18 percent.
Manufacturing wages in Portugal have plunged from $6.
Experts in the US and Europe say they have been shocked by the soaring temperatures recorded in November, when much of the region is plunged into freezing winter darkness.
Apple's sales in Greater China - defined by the company as China, Hong Kong and Taiwan - plunged 33%.
The pound plunged to a three-decade low after Britons voted to leave the bloc, making the country's goods and services cheaper for overseas buyers.
Though still far beyond the natural rate, China's sex ratio at birth plunged by 2.
Grim reminders of it were strewn along the road: burned carcasses of old Soviet tanks, overturned military trucks gone to rust, a crushed Russian jeep that had plunged over the mountainside.
In June, two men in the Ural Mountains died after posing pulling the pin from a hand grenade; in May a woman survived shooting herself in the head in her Moscow office; a month later a 21-year-old university graduate plunged 40 feet (12 metres) to her death while posing hanging from a Moscow bridge.
" Now they came to the border of the grove, crossed a little stream, and plunged headlong among the trees and shrubs.
Not only does it encourage domestic production but also purchases of cheap imports as global grain prices plunged.
Alibaba plunged 8.
So when the temperature plunged I finally swathed myself in the sensual layers of mink.
The ratings downgrade had been anticipated for weeks, and yet after its publication on Monday the ruble plunged to new lows against the dollar.
The sharp decline in unemployment will start to seem real The unemployment rate has plunged over the past three years to 5.
In 1990-91, about 29 percent of bachelor's degrees awarded in computer and information sciences went to women; 20 years later, it has plunged to 18 percent.
