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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 toa 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 refers to someone who is apparently incapable of passion 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 efficiency in various industries. 135. Spanning more than 50 years, Friedrich Muller's career began in an unpromising apprenticeship asa Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow. 13